Confectionary Stand (Compotier)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1886
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow, circular, footed dish with wide everted rim covered by a band of densely-packed flowers and foliage, to which is added a pendant border of scrolls and flowers. Short, incurved pedestal is joined to a domed circular foot with complementary raised floral decoration. Dish underside struck incuse with two overlapping circular marks (one of a pointed shield with balanced scales bordered by "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY" in sans serif letters and the other "QUADRUPLE / PLATE") above the number "55" and "U.S.A."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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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: 1992.0071.03
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0071.03
label: accession number
content: 1992.0071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand, confectionery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 8 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 20.6375 cm