Here we have an attractive thin-walled mocha decorated sugar bowl with its original lid.  This is English and dates to circa 1785.  The body and lid are decorated with a speckled agate composed of tiny bits of different colored clay sprinkled on the wet clay surface, then cut smooth on a lathe.  Below the rim this is decorated with an inlaid checkered black and white rouletting band.  Around the lid and base of the sugar this is further decorated with engine-turned vertical ribbing.  The top of the lid has a finely molded decorative acorn knob.  The sugar is supported by a recessed flat foot ring.  Measuring 6 ¼” in diameter from rim to rim by 3” in height to the rim and 5” to the top of the acorn knob, the sugar is in original mint condition with no damage or repairs.  A photo of a matching piece is shown on page 29 in Jonathan Rickard’s definitive book “MOCHA and related dipped wares, 1770-1939”.  It is a testament to the beauty of this extremely rare sugar bowl that it has been cherished and survives in this original pristine condition.