Butter Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1851 - 1859
name: label: owner; user
content: Washington, Mary Anne Hammond
label: maker
content: Krider, Peter L.
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, circular dish with removable, pierced liner on three, cast, looped and flowering branch feet enclosed by a repousse chased, double-domed cover topped by a cast reclining sheep. Cover is decorated with reserves of flowers, fruits and C scrolls separated by scallop shells in C scrolls and has a cast greek-key patterned band at bottom edge, while bowl has a continuous branch of pendant flowers and leaves with ruffled gadrooning at its wide, flared rim. Dish is struck incuse on the underside of its rounded bottom above and below centerpoint, "STANDARD" and "*P.L.K.*" in serif letters. Cover and liner not marked.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Georgia, Macon
topic: label: Subject
content: Dairy
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: depicted; decorative motif
content: Flowers
label: depicted; decorative motif
content: Sheep
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Ellen Washington Bellamy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1002
label: catalog number
content: 60.1002A-C
label: accession number
content: 71656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, butter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 6 7/8 in; 14.605 cm x 17.4625 cm