Tray
date: label: date made
content: 1816 - 1817
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, flat round-cornered rectangular tray with raised, coved edge and applied cast rim of gadrooning interrupted by seven-lobed shells and leafy scrolls at center of sides and double shells at corners; no foot. Well obverse is engraved at center with an armorial device consisting of a crest depicting a right (dexter) arm cuffed holding a dagger or sword erect proper with a laurel wreath suspended from its tip above the gothic or Old English letters "H M\c/. K." Cast incurved bracket acanthus handles. Top right corner of underside is struck with five hallmarks, "W·B" in raised roman letters in clipped-corner rectangle, lion passant in clipped-corner shield, crowned leopard's head in clipped-corner round-bottom shield, the raised roman letter "a" in clipped-corner shield, and right-facing sovereign's head in profile in oval.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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 Mrs. William Duncan McKim
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.382531
label: catalog number
content: 382531
label: accession number
content: 161740
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 21 7/8 in x 14 1/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 55.5625 cm x 35.8775 cm