Tray
date: label: date made
content: ca 1845 - 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Half-sheet, oblong octagonal, japanned tray with a crystallized and painted well bordered by a wide white band with orange-red and yellow pear shapes flanked by brown-green, stepped-edge leaves along the straight sides and a two-part, orange-red peach or flower bud with curved, serrated-edge leaves on the short ends. Each angled corner has a line of orange-red dots and black dashes. Black veins and details, including squiggles filling the open spaces. Yellow apostrophe brushstrokes on tray sides. Made in one piece, cut and folded, with wire-rolled rim and flat bottom. Exterior painted black. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Frederick Zeitz Tinshop, Philadelphia, PA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.03
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray
label: Other Terms
content: Tray; 41Cc, Sullivan, Michael D
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 22.225 cm x 15.5575 cm