Waste Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1814
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless, rectangular, rounded-bottom bowl on a rectangular, stepped pedestal base with applied reeded molding for foot. A wide, die-rolled band of grapevine and oak branch decoration is at rim above a raised lower body with bulbous upper half and two overlapping rows of chased points around bottom. Underside of body is struck with four hallmarks, but no maker's mark; centerpunch visible. One end of base underside is struck with seller's mark and incised with weight. From a four-piece service, DL*383361-DL*383363A-B.
label: Description
content: Hallmarks appear to be those for Chester, England, in 1814, although there is no town mark. Sellers are Liberty Browne (1776-1831) and William Seal (active, circa 1810-circa 1822) of Philadelphia, PA; in partnership, circa 1810-1811.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Chester
label: place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place used
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Anna McGowan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383363B
label: catalog number
content: 383363B
label: accession number
content: 167322
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, waste
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 13.335 cm x 17.145 cm x 13.0175 cm