Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1767 - 1798
notes: label: Description
content: Single-reeded circular dish with flat well incised near booge; no foot ring. Underside struck twice with partial lamb-and-flag touchmark for William Elsworth above four pseudo hallmarks facing the opposite direction: the raised serif letters "W.E" with two horizontal lines below, a Paschal Lamb, Britannia or Columbia seated, and a left-facing lion rampant, all in clipped-corner squares. Planishing marks visible on booge.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Elsworth (1746-1816), working in New York City, 1767-1798.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1986.0027.13
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.13
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 13 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 33.3375 cm