Tray
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800 - 1846
notes: label: Description
content: Half-sheet, oblong octagonal, japanned tray with a crystallized and painted well containing a yellow, incurved-corner rectangular outline and bordered by a narrow red band and a wide white band with broad green rope strokes containing pairs of red slanted ovals and black hash marks on all four sides; each angled corner has a red swag with alizarin overtone and black squiggle below two yellow lines. Steep sides have a thick yellow band at rim. Made in one piece, cut and folded, with wire-rolled rim and flat bottom. Exterior painted black. No marks.
label: Description
content: Painted tinware trays decorated with large red swag corners, such as those seen on this example, are unique 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
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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: 1978.0119.04
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 5 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 14.2875 cm x 21.59 cm