Tray
date: label: date inscribed
content: 1845
notes: label: Description
content: Single-sheet, oblong octagonal, japanned tray painted with a symmetrical design featuring a large, circular red flower or fruit at center of well encompased by an oval red bud or fruit between alternating yellow and green leaflets at sides and three smaller red buds or fruits between two, curved and pointed, yellow-highlighted and -veined, green leaves above and below. Large flower has feathered alizarin and white overtones on sides; smaller circles and ovals have yellow centers and alizarin overstrokes. A yellow ribbon and line border well. Made in one piece, cut and folded, with wire-rolled rim and flat bottom. Exterior is painted black with finish removed at top right on bottom to highlight an inscription scratched in cursive script: "Mary Ellen Bagley / Brookfield (underlined) / 1845".
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Oliver Filley Tinshop of Bloomfield, CT, circa 1800-1846.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bloomfield
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Vermont, Brookfield
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray
label: Other Terms
content: Tray; 41Cc, Sullivan, Michael D
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 10 1/2 in x 14 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 26.67 cm x 37.1475 cm