Goblet
date: label: date made
content: 1851
notes: label: Description
content: Large, raised, tulip-shaped, standing cup encircled by chased and repousse flowers, leaves, and C-scrolls framing areas of diaper and squiggle patterning; scrolls at front form a reserve inscribed in engraved script "Presented / to / Franklin Peale / By the / Ladies of the U.S. Mint / Dec\r/. 25\th/.. 1851". Tall, cylindrical stem with astragal knop and domed circular foot wreathed by flowers. Die-rolled decorative band of foliage at rim and in a Greek key pattern at foot. Gilt wash on upper half of interior. Inside of foot ring possibly struck "W. WILSON" over "[R&W.WILS]ON", both in raised serif letters in rectangles.
label: Description
content: It has been suggested William Wilson (Philadelphia, PA; d. after 1858) deliberately overstruck this piece to indicate it was made after his brother Robert either left the partnership or died, circa 1846. William ran the firm alone until 1858 when it became William Wilson & Son.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Presentation
label: Subject
content: Christmas
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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 Mrs. Philip Plowden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251470.0001
label: catalog number
content: 251470.0001
label: accession number
content: 251470
objectType: label: Object Name
content: goblet
label: Object Name
content: presentation piece
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash on interior material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 4 in; 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm