Salt Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1871
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Small, bail-handled basket with circular, bulbous or bellied body on flared, circular foot; engraved on one side with an armorial device or coat of arms featuring a barred escutcheon with crest of a left-facing collared dog's head above and with motto "NON NOBIS SOLUM" below. Applied beading across bow of handle and below plain rim. Gold washed interior. Underside of rounded bottom is struck with Gorham trademark (right-facing lion passant in clipped-corner square, anchor in rectangle, and gothic or Old English "G" in clipped-corner square) above "1016", "STERLING" and "D", all in incuse serif letters. One of two salts, DL*383725-DL*383726.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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 Kate Session Marsh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383725
label: catalog number
content: 383725
label: accession number
content: 166645
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, salt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in; 4.445 cm x 5.3975 cm