Salt Dish
date: label: date retailed
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, bulbous oval salt with applied cast gadrooned rim on four cast legs with shell knees and three-toed feet. Gilt-washed bowl is engraved on exterior with an armorial device depicting a crest of a bird standing left on a perch rising from a heraldic wreath. Underside of rounded bottom is engraved in script "A. E. S. / 1854." above and below "J.E.CALDWELL& / PHILAD\A." struck in incuse serif letters; centerpoint visible. Torn red-bordered white paper label is inscribed with donor's name. One of two salts, DL*378849-378850.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Caroline H. Addison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.378850
label: catalog number
content: 378850
label: accession number
content: 136183
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 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 4.7625 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm