Bread Tray
date: label: date made
content: ca 1818 - 1853
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned rectangular tray or pan painted with wide white bands on its flared, rounded ends, both featuring half of a flower with blue-outlined, yellow petals above a red swag with black lattice fence strokes and yellow dots flanked by undulating, thin blue stems with pairs of green leaflets and five, circular, red fruits or buds. Yellow brushwork runs below these bands and along the flared, shallow U-shaped sides. Well repainted; originally was crystallized. Made in five pieces with a molded, wire-rolled rim, folded seams, and a flat bottom. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Harvey Filley Tinshop of Philadelphia, PA, circa 1818-1853.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.30
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tray, bread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 14 1/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 35.8775 cm x 20.0025 cm