Individual Bonbon Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Small, Art Nouveau, repoussé chased pentagonal dish with slightly convex, cinquefoil well; no footring. Flared sides and everted rim with downturned edge are segmented by five sinuous ribbons overrun by a wreath of wild roses open at one corner, leaving an empty reserve. No monogram. Underside of well struck incuse with circular mark for "THE VAN BERGH S.P.CO. (arched) / ROCHESTER, NY (curved)" enclosing "QUADRUPLE / PLATE", and "5353" below. From a 7-piece set (one large and six small dishes) for serving bonbons ("sweets") or nuts, 1989.0184.11-.17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Nuts
label: Subject
content: Sugar
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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: 1989.0184.12
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0184.12
label: accession number
content: 1989.0184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dish, Bon-Bon
label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 9.2075 cm x 9.8425 cm