Serving Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow oval dish with inset, flat-top domed cover topped by a cast looped-branch handle; no foot ring. Two bands of gadrooning on top of cover, one on underside of its flat rim, and one at rim of dish. Removable handle with bowtie-shaped twist lock. Top inside rim of dish, top of rim on cover, and underside of handle are all stamped "3". Dish struck on exterior at one end below rim with six marks, "1864" above a combined maker's mark of "JR" in raised gothic or Old English letters in an oval, "&" in a clipped-corner square, and a raised gothic or Old English "S" in clipped-corner square; a crown in pointed-top shield; "EP" in raised roman letters in an oval set sideways; "ALL THE / ROUND" in a life belt; and a raised roman letter "A" in circle. One of two dishes, DL*66.0559A-B.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Round & Son, Ltd. of Sheffield, England; 1847-1932. Started by John Round who was joined by his son Edwin; firm incorporated as John Round & Son, Ltd. in 1874 and combined with Ridge, Allcard & Co in 1886, keeping the Round name. Their main factory was at Tudor Works, Tudor Street, but they also operated the nearby Arundel Plate Works (wares made there possibly stamped with the "A" mark).
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: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John H. Crea
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.66.0559B
label: catalog number
content: 66.0559B
label: accession number
content: 265238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, covered
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 12 in x 9 1/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 30.48 cm x 23.495 cm