Fruit Dish Centerpiece
date: label: date made
content: ca 1877
notes: label: Description
content: Figural fruit dish with a tapered rectangular base on four bracket feet that is ornamented with a scallop-edged, shell-shape barge or boat on scrolling flowered supports being paddled by a female deity or fairy with star diadem standing atop a flower on the prow. Festoons of laurel leaves and berries hang from the boat's sides. Stamped and chased aesthetic-style designs fill the boat's interior and border the base. A die-rolled band of floral medallions covers the base's sides and additional flowers and large beads adorn its feet. Elements are individually cast and screwed into the base. Underside of base is struck incuse near center with two circular rampant lion marks for "MERIDEN SILVER PLATE CO.", one covered by the X support for the feet and the other deliberately engraved over. The number "4521" is stamped below these marks while a circular plate for "GEO. EAKINS. / PHILADLEPHIA" is affixed above and "41" is engraved to the left.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
label: place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0340.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0340
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0340.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, fruit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 29.845 cm x 37.465 cm x 19.05 cm