Child's Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904
label: Date made
content: ca 1904
label: inscribed date
content: 1904-04-09
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Spun circular child's bowl with six Nouveau-style overlays alternating between front and back views of a girl in bonnet seated within a tulip-shaped arrangement of leaves atop a knotty trunk and holding the S-curved stem of a blooming flower. Engraved inscription on side for "Elsie. / April 9\th (double underlined) / 1904. / From / Grandma M\c/Vitty." No foot ring. Underside of flat bottom is struck incuse "Athenic" in gothic or Old English letters above Gorham trademark (lion passant facing right in clipped-corner square, anchor in shield, and gothic or Old English "G" in clipped-corner square), "STERLING", "A2680", and "BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE CO". Underside scuffed along edge. Part of child's bowl and plate set, 1988.0762.02A-B.
label: Description
content: Maker is Gorham Manufacturing Co. of Providence, RI, 1831-present. Retailed by Bailey, Banks & Biddle of Philadelphia, PA, 1832-present (originally Bailey & Kitchen, 1832-1841; Bailey & Co., 1851-1878; Bailey, Banks & Biddle, 1878-present).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
label: place sold
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Baby
label: Subject
content: Birthdays, General
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Family
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
label: Subject
content: Girls
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Elsie Howland Quinby in memory of Mrs. Duncan Cameron (through Woodson P. Houghton, Dr. Richard H. Howland, and Donald Lewis Wright)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0762.02A
label: accession number
content: 1988.0762
label: catalog number
content: 1988.762.02A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 13.335 cm