Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1756 - 1783
label: date made
content: 1761 - 1783
notes: label: Description
content: Single-reeded circular dish with flat well incised at perimeter; no foot ring. Underside struck twice with faint rose-and-crown touchmark for Henry Will (only part of crown visible) above pseudo hallmarks, only two of four visible: Britannia or Columbia seated and a leopard's head, both in clipped-corner rectangles; a sword or elongated cross shape stamped in small chevrons is between them.
label: Description
content: Maker is Henry Will (circa 1735-1802), working in New York, NY, 1761-1775 and 1783-1793; and Albany, NY, 1775-1783 (fled there at the outset of the Revolution). His father John Will (1696-1774) , who emigrated from Neuwied, Germany and worked in New York, 1752-1774, as well as his brothers Philip (also worked in New York City and Philadelphia, 1763-1787), and William (worked in Philadelphia, 1764-1798), were also pewterers. Henry Will stopped using the rose-and-crown touch upon moving back to New York City after the Revolution.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.11
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.11
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 13 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 33.655 cm