Fruit Stand
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880-1884
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow, colorless, pressed glass bowl on a circular stand with slender shaft and low-domed base on four, cast, triangular or wedge-shaped feet, each relief-decorated with a small bird in flight. Plain-rimmed, round-bottom bowl or dish has a smooth interior and a textured exterior with circular projection that fits into circular depression on stand. Underside of stand base is struck incuse "BRIDGEPORT SILVER CO" arranged in a circle around a beehive with iron cross at bottom, "[D]OUBLE PLATE", and "1004".
label: Description
content: Maker is Bridgeport Silver Co. of Bridgeport, CT; circa 1880-1884.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Steven T. Myers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.66.0279
label: catalog number
content: 66.0279
label: accession number
content: 263347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand, fruit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (stand material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (bowl material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/8 in x 8 7/8 in; 18.0975 cm x 22.5425 cm