Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1825-1827
notes: label: Description
content: Single-reeded circular dish with flat well scored at perimeter; no foot ring. Three partial touch marks struck on underside, twice with oval containing a standing spreadwing eagle, body facing right and head turned left, against a textured ground, no inscription; and once with the circular eagle mark of Boardman & Co., New York. One of two dishes, DL*388307A-B.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Danforth Boardman (1784-1873) and Sherman Boardman (1787-1861) of Hartford, CT (in business, 1810-1854) who used the oval eagle mark without letters after 1820 to indicate pieces made in Hartford. The circular eagle mark indicates these dishes were made for and sold by their New York outlet, Boardman & Co., 1825-1827 (run by Lucius Hart, who became partner in the business in 1828 - renamed Boardman & Hart).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
label: place sold
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: sold
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388307A
label: catalog number
content: 388307A
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 12 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 30.7975 cm