Card Receiver
date: label: date made
content: 1862 - 1877
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, square tray on circular stand. Tray features wedge-shaped, horizontal, applied cast handles of lotus flowers and cattails, die-rolled bands of flowers and foliage divided into rectangular segments at rim, and flat-chased Eastlake-style motifs and a circle of leaves on its shallow, angled sides and gilt-washed well. Slender shaft with central ball knop and flanking leafy scroll supports are mounted to a domed base topped by raised floral and foliate decoration and plain, sloped sides. Base underside struck with an incuse circular mark containing a pointed shield with balanced scales bordered by "x MERIDEN x / B. COMPANY." in sans serif letters and "102".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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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 Insilco Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0424.10
label: accession number
content: 1984.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0424.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: receiver, card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 9 in x 5 5/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 22.86 cm x 14.2875 cm