Card Tray
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880-1884
notes: label: Description
content: Standing tray in the form of a circular, rigid, hand-held fan chased with an asymmetrical, Japanesque design including two birds in flight at center, a curving rice plant to right, and overlapping circles of geometric patterns to left. Three griffin-headed supports connect to a circular, die-rolled band of birds and insects amidst ivy underneath the tray and to a tiered, circular base at bottom. Underside of stand base is struck incuse "BRIDGEPORT SILVER CO" arranged in a circle around a beehive with iron cross at bottom, "TRIPLE PLATE", and "704".
label: Description
content: Maker is Bridgeport Silver Co. of Bridgeport, CT; circa 1880-1884.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0470.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0470.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0470
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tray, Card
label: Object Name
content: tray, card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in; 13.6525 cm x 21.59 cm x 16.1925 cm