Cruet Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1810
notes: label: Description
content: Seven-ring cruet frame mounted to a concave-cornered rectangular tray on four hoof-like shell feet. Frame has a central scroll handle with baluster shaft fitted with five large and two small rings supported by three reverse-scroll feet with acanthus-leaf knees and an asymmetrical C scroll shield at front; handle, feet and reserve are screwed into tray and peened. Cast flat band of overlapping leaves or scales at rim; seamed rings have chevron-pattern. Underside of tray bottom is engraved "H. K. Chase" in script and struck with three marks, facing out, at both ends, "T.WARNER" in a rectangle, an eagle's head facing left in an oval, and "STERL\G." in a rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Warner of (1780-1828) Baltimore; active, c. 1800-1820 (in partnership with his brother Andrew E. Warner, 1805-1812; served as first City Assayer for Baltimore, 1814 to 1823, and devised duty marks used). Prior to the creation of the Baltimore Assay Office, several Baltimore silversmiths, including Warner, used an eagle's head stamp as a pseudo-hallmark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Caroline H. Addison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.378848
label: catalog number
content: 378848
label: accession number
content: 136183
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand, cruet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 10 1/8 in x 8 7/8 in; 24.765 cm x 25.7175 cm x 22.5425 cm