Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1748
label: date made
content: 1755-1782
notes: label: Description
content: Large, single-reeded circular dish with deep, rounded booge and flat well engraved at center "S.C. / 1748." in a shaded, leafy-scrolled font accented by flourishes; no foot ring. Underside struck with six marks, twice with the lion-in-gateway touch mark of Thomas Danforth II, above four pseudo-hallmarks (left to right): "I.D", lion's head erased facing left, Britannia seated, and dagger or sword pointing up, all in shaped shields.
label: Description
content: Mark was used by Thomas Danforth II (1731-1782) of Middletown, CT; working 1755-1782.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
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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 Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.28
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.28
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 13 1/8 in; 4.445 cm x 33.3375 cm