Cruet Set
date: label: date made
content: 1867-1898
notes: label: Description
content: Four-handled, circular dish or tray with a fan-shaped central handle fitted with a fixed frame of four equal-size rings holding four, clear, colorless, pear-shaped, faceted glass bottles (two cruets have pointed-drop stoppers, one caster has a perforated cap, and one hinged-lid mustard jar has a steeple finial and utensil cutout). A cast horned cow or steer head is mounted to tray sides in line with curved handles and feet. Handle screws into tray. Underside of tray bottom is struck incuse "QUADRUPLE PLATE" in serif letters above a circular mark for "WILCOX SILVER PLATE C\o." with crossed raising hammers at center, the number "649" below.
label: Description
content: Maker is Wilcox Silver Plate Co. of Meriden, CT. The firm was founded as Wilcox Britannia Co. in 1865, and changed its name to Wilcox Silver Plate Co. in 1867. It was one of the founding members of International Silver Co. in 1898; Insilco continued to use the Wilcox name and trademark until circa 1961 when the line was consolidated with E. G. Webster & Son (purchased by Insilco in 1928) into Webster-Wilcox.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0665.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0665.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0665
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cruet set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (bottles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, stand: 10 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, bottles w/ stoppers, each: 8 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 4.7625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, shaker: 6 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 4.7625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, mustard bottle: 5 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 4.445 cm