Egg Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1875-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Eight-egg stand or server consisting of an octafoil or eight-lobed tray with piercework gallery on eight scroll-bordered feet that holds eight, six-petaled, tulip-or lily-shaped egg cups with gilt-washed interiors; central shaft topped by a stirrup-shaped handle is fitted with a circular spoon holder notched for eight spoons and is engraved with a shaded gothic or Old English "A" and six fiddle egg spoons with spatulate or inverted ovoid bowls. Cups are fixed in place on tray by vertical rods that fit into their pedestal bases. No marks. Tarnished. Gilding worn. Two spoons missing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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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 Charlotte Ellis Danforth in memory of J. Lewis Ellis and Olive M. Ellis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300471
label: catalog number
content: 300471
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand, egg
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (stand, cups material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash inside cups material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (gilt wash on spoons material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, tray: 10 5/8 in x 10 1/2 in; 26.9875 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, cups, each: 2 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 6.985 cm x 7.3025 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, spoons, each: 1/2 in x 4 5/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 11.7475 cm x 2.54 cm