Dish Cover
date: label: date made
content: ca 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Large, oval, domed dish cover with wide molded base and cast oval handle on a leafy backplate screwed on through center of top. One long side is engraved with an armorial device consisting of an impaled coat of arms on a shaped shield surmounted by a unicorn's head facing left rising from a heraldic wreath. Top inside is struck with two marks, a cross over orb and possibly "BK(?)" in raised serif letters in a rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is Walker, Knowles & Co., of Sheffield, England.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dorothy Crane, in memory of Major General and Mrs. Harry K. Rutherford
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.70.0088
label: catalog number
content: 70.0088
label: accession number
content: 287590
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cover, dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 15 7/8 in x 11 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 40.3225 cm x 29.845 cm