Bread Tray
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800-1846
notes: label: Description
content: Straight-sided, japanned bread basket or tray painted on its flared, rounded ends with wide white bands featuring a red, six-petaled and oval-centered, crab flower with alizarin overtones and yellow highlights flanked by tripartite green leaves and six-lobed flowers with yellow-dotted centers; black veins and details, including squiggles in the open spaces. Yellow ladle strokes with center line and dots on long sides. Dotted yellow lattce fence strokes above two thin lines border well. Made in five pieces with a molded, wire-rolled rim and flat bottom. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Oliver Filley Tinshop of Blomfield, CT, circa 1800-1846.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bloomfield
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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: DL.322631.0003
label: catalog number
content: 322631.0003
label: accession number
content: 322631
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray, bread
label: Object Name
content: pan, bread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 12 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 32.385 cm x 20.0025 cm