Plate
date: label: date made
content: late 18th or early 19th century
label: date made
content: ca 1775
notes: label: Description
content: Small circular plate or saucer with plain rim and flat well; no foot ring. Six marks on underside, a crowned "X" stamped incuse above four pseudo hallmarks (left to right): "B&P" in raised serif letters between horizontal bands in an octagon, Britannia seated in a rectangle, a lion's head erased in round shield, and a Tudor rose in clipped-corner square; "LONDON" in large, raised serif letters in rectangle below. One of two small plates (same maker, different marks), 1991.0825.08-.09.
label: Description
content: Maker is Bush & Perkins (Robert Bush I and Richard Perkins); in partnership, 1771-1781, in Bristol and Bitton, England. Produced and sold pewter wares for domestic use and export.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Bristol
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. John H. Murray (Anne W. Murray)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0825.09
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0825.09
label: accession number
content: 1991.0825
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 10.4775 cm