Dish
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1875-1891
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, shallow, clear cranberry, blown bowl or dish with pinched rim and white enamel and gilt decoration that rests inside a two-handled circular frame on four splayed legs with scrolled brackets and flat shell feet. Bowl interior is painted with a child in Victorian dress standing in profile facing right surrounded by clusters of flowers. Frame has cast leaves and a pair of flying doves on rosette-decorated blocks applied to its curved wire handles, and a die-rolled band of overlapping arches encircling its lower edge. Small circular disc affixed inside of frame is struck with two incuse marks, "JAMES W. TUFTS / BOSTON / WARRANTED / QUADRUPLE PLATE" arranged in a circle around a "T" at center of a four-pointed star, and "2268".
label: Description
content: Frame manufacturer is James W. Tufts (1835-1902) of Charlestown and Boston, MA. Tufts was an apothecary store apprentice who went on to open his own chain of drugstores in Massachusetts. His interest in sodas sold at his stores led him to invent and patent the Artic soda fountain in 1863 and he served as the first president of the Artic Soda Fountain Co. (later merged into the American Soda Fountain Co.). He diversified his business by manufacturing soda fountain equipment and, beginning in 1875, a variety of silverplated wares (not all were soda-related). He retired to North Carolina in 1895, where he worked with Frederick Law Olmstead to develop the town of Pinehurst. The silverplating business continued under his name until around 1915.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place stand made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place bowl made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Sandwich
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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 Lois H. Garvin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0145.06
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0145.06
label: accession number
content: 1994.0145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (bowl or dish material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (bowl decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gilt (bowl decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (stand material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (stand production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 12 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 31.115 cm x 20.0025 cm