Tray
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875 - 1915
notes: label: Description
content: Circular tray with an everted, lobed rim and flat well decorated overall on obverse with flat-chased and stamped geometric and floral designs, beginning with an eight-petaled medallion at center encompassed by a diaper-patterned square bordered by stylized hammer or planishing marks, semicircular rosettes, five-petaled fowers in scrolls, and a zigzag band. Textured reverse. No foot ring. Appears to have had a two-tone finish originally. Well underside struck incuse with "JAMES W. TUFTS / BOSTON / WARRANTED / QUADRUPLE PLATE" arranged in a circle around a "T" at center of a four-pointed star, and "2343".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: Leo F. Walsh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.289214.0001
label: catalog number
content: 289214.0001
label: accession number
content: 289214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 11 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 28.8925 cm