Covered Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1847-1850
notes: label: Description
content: Wide-ribbed or multilobed, flattened spherical covered dish with cast finial of a pheasant standing on foliated ground and three openwork scrolled feet. Top and bottom halves are raised and repousse chased with feathers or leaves twisted at their tips and curled over on their sides. Underside of the stepped boss or convex bottom is engraved "A L. F." in script above four marks struck around the centerpoint, "JONES, BALL & POOR", "PURE COIN", "W & G.", and "BOSTON", all in raised serif letters inside rectangles.
label: Description
content: Made by Woodward & Grosjean of Boston, MA, working circa 1847-1850, for Jones, Ball & Poor, also of Boston, 1846-1853.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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 Mrs. W. Duncan McKim
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.393771
label: catalog number
content: 393771
label: accession number
content: 210599
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, covered
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 14.605 cm x 12.3825 cm