Highchair Tray
date: label: date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Semicircular flat tray with double-reeded, raised rim overturned along back for hanging. Obverse is decorated with an etched and chased border divided into panels containing scenes or vignettes of nursery rhymes with a running band of titles beneath (clockwise from left: "THE PIPER'S SON * LITTLE BO PEEP * THE THREE BEARS * FAIRY STORIES * THREE LITTLE PIGS * RED RIDING HOOD * MARY \ HAD A / LITTLE LAMB * MOTHER HUBBARD * PUSS IN BOOTS * HUMPTY DUMPTY * JACK \ AND / JILL"); triangular panel at top center depicts three Easter Bunnies with eggs; arched panel at bottom center shows Santa Claus on his sleigh; and bottom corner panels have boys and girls reading "ABC" and "FAIRY / STORY" books near a Christmas tree and holly sprigs. Plain bottom. Underside of back edge is struck incuse "GORHAM" in serif letters to left of trademark (right-facing lion passant in clipped-corner square, anchor in shield, and gothic or Old English "G" in clipped-corner square), "STERLING" in sans serif letters, and "1558".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Maryland, Upper Marlboro
topic: label: Subject
content: Baby
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Fairy Tales
label: Subject
content: nursery rhyme
label: Subject
content: Christmas
label: Subject
content: Easter
label: Subject
content: Santa Claus
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0161.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0161.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray, highchair
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 15 in x 10 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 38.1 cm x 25.7175 cm