Dish
date: label: Date made
content: 1864-1899
label: Date made
content: DELETE
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, shallow, clear cranberry blown glass bowl or dish with pinched rim and white enamel and gilt decoration that rests on a circular tray with fixed oval wire handle and four splayed legs decorated with lilies-of-the-valley or bellflowers. Bowl interior is painted with a child in Victorian dress standing in profile facing right surrounded by clusters of flowers. A cast grasshopper, dragonfly, sunflowers and lilies-of-the-valley are applied the handle sides. Underside of base is struck "MIDDLETOWN PLATE C\o. / QUADRUPLE PLATE" encircling cross-topped scales, "181", and "HARD / WHITE / METAL" also arranged in a circle.
label: Description
content: Painted decoration possibly by Mary Alice Gregory (1856-1908), who worked at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Co., Sandwich, MA, in the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Basket manufacturer is Middletown Plate Co. of Middletown, CT. Middletown Plate Co. was founded in 1864 and became a subsidiary of International Silver Co. in 1898; International continued to use the Middletown name and mark until at least 1921.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place stand made
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
label: place bowl made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Sandwich
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: Bequest of Lois H. Garvin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0145.03
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0145.03
label: accession number
content: 1994.0145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (bowl material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (bowl decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (bowl decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (stand material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (stand production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 9 in x 7 3/8 in; 19.685 cm x 22.86 cm x 18.7325 cm