Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1761-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Large, single-reeded circular dish with flat well scored around perimeter; no foot ring. Six marks struck on underside, two different touch marks of Frederick Bassett above four pseudo hallmarks (left to right), rampant lion, illegible figure (possibly a ship), scales and the raised serif letters "FB", all in shaped shields. Planishing marks on underside of booge. Sawtoothed circular, brown and torn paper label affixed to underside with cellophane tape is inscribed and printed (in black) "#3131(?) / Original / John B. Kerfoot / Collection".
label: Description
content: Maker is Frederick Bassett (1740-1800); working in New York, NY, 1761-1780 and 1785-circa1800, and Hartford, CT, 1780-1785.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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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 Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.39
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.39
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 14 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 37.465 cm