Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1670 - 1710
notes: label: Description
content: Broad-rim circular dish wih shallow flat well; no foot ring. Face of plain rim struck at top with the incuse roman letters "I T" and four times along bottom with touchmark of Edmund Dolbeare, consisting of the raised roman letters "E.D" above four stars in a small five-pointed shield; all marks face well. Hammer marks on booge.
label: Description
content: Maker is Edmund Dolbeare (1644-ca. 1711) of Ashburton, Devonshire, England, who emigrated to Boston by 1671; he worked there until 1684, then in Salem, 1684-1693, and again in Boston, 1706-1711. Edmund Dolbeare was among the earliest pewterers in America and believed to be the first in Boston. His two eldest sons, John Dolbeare (1669-1740) and Joseph Dolbeare (b. ca. 1672) were also pewterers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Salem
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.31
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.31
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 13 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 33.3375 cm