Vegetable Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1920
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, circular covered vegetable dish on four cast shell-and-flower feet; a removable ring with cast reverse-scroll edge rests on its rolled rim. Dish bottom has a flat, raised, circular center and flat gutter. Flat-top, shallow ogee-domed cover is topped by a cast finial of three roses. Bottom underside of dish struck incuse at center with circular mark for "VAN BERGH SILVER PLATE CO. (arched) / ROCHESTER, N.Y. (curved)" with "QUADRUPLE / PLATE" inside; "3012" stamped below. Cover and ring insert not marked.
label: Description
content: Maker is Van Bergh Silver Plate Company of Rochester, NY; 1892-1926. Founded by brothers Frederick W. and Maurice H. Van Bergh; incorporated as Van Bergh Silver Plate Company Inc. in 1925, and merged with Oneida Community Ltd. in 1926.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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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. C. Malcolm Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.306994.0019
label: catalog number
content: 306994.0019
label: accession number
content: 306994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, vegetable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 12 1/8 in x 9 7/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 30.7975 cm x 25.0825 cm