Dish
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
label: date made
content: 1750 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Single-reeded circular dish with shallow flat well; no foot ring. Rim face struck at top with the incuse crowned roman letters "S, "V" and "C". Well reverse engraved with a merman or fish-man wielding a sword and leading a Wunderfisch or "Wonderfish", which has the head of a man with a cross for his tongue and wearing a crown of three crosses; the body of a fish carrying a cannon on its back and three muskets crossed by a sword or saber and three skulls and a square marked "AD / IP" inside an large "X" on its side; and the legs of a bird. Faintly visible above the engraving are two partial touchmarks of a crowned Tudor rose inside a pair of C-scrolls; third stamp erased and covered by decoration.
label: Description
content: Maker attributed to Francis Bassett I (1690-1758; working 1718-1758) or his nephew Francis Bassett II (1729-1800; working 1754-1800) based on the crowned Tudor rose mark (recorded in Laughlin, Pewter in America, vol. 2, #459). Laughlin notes, however, that the mark illustrated (on plate in his collection) is the only example known to him (this dish would be the second). The plate appears to date from the later 18th century, suggesting Francis Bassett II probably made it.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.10
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.10
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 14 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 37.7825 cm