Punch Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1826
label: Associated Date
content: 1827
name: label: previous owner
content: Pell, Alfred Duane
notes: label: Description
content: Large circular bowl with applied bands of repousse chased grapevine decoration around its body and circular, domed pedestal foot. Band on body is interrupted by two S-scroll, flower and shell reserves at opposite sides; one is engraved with inscription: "PRESENTED TO / JAMES PETRIE ESQ\R. / By a few of his particular friends / at Miramichi NB. / AS / a Tribute of their respect for his / VIRTUES, / their admiration of his / Professional abilities, / and / of their regret for the loss of his / SOCIETY and SERVICES. / 1827.", while the other bears an armorial device consisting of a shield-shaped escutcheon with coat of arms Azur, bend sinister argent between a stag's head caboshed and three cross crosslets fitchy, with anchor crest and motto "SPEM FORTUNA ALIT". Five hallmarks struck below reserve with armorial device: lion rampant in clipped-corner shield, sovereign's head in profile facing right in oval, "HERON" in raised roman letters in rectangle, Glasgow assay mark (the city's coat of arms) in clipped-corner shield, and raised roman date letter "H" in clipped-corner shield.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Greenock
label: place assayed
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Glasgow City
label: place presented
content: Canada: New Brunswick, Miramichi Bay
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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: DL.60.0336
label: catalog number
content: 60.0336
label: accession number
content: 225282
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in; 13.97 cm x 25.7175 cm