Saucer (Paten)
date: label: date made
content: 1752 - 1781
name: label: maker
content: Heyne, Johann Christopher
notes: label: Description
content: Single-reeded saucer or small plate, possibly a paten, with plain flat well; no foot ring. Small touchmark of Johann Christophe Heyne, his initials "I.C.H." in a scalloped rectangular surround, on underside of well near center.
label: Description
content: Maker is Johann Cristoph Heyne (1715-1781), a Saxon-born and -trained pewterer who was also a Moravian minister and teacher. He worked briefly in Germany (now part of Poland), Stockholm and London before immigrating to America in 1742 as part of the first group of Moravians to settle in Pennsylvania. He lived in Bethlehem and Tulpehocken, traveled to Dublin, Ireland as a missionary and finally made his home in Lancaster around 1752. Considering almost all of the roughly 100 known pieces of Heyne pewter are for ecclesiastical use, this small dish or plate could be a paten. (See flagon by Heyne, 1986.0027.98; also from the Kler Collection.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Lancaster
topic: label: used; probable
content: Christianity
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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 Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.02
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saucer
label: Object Name
content: Saucer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 16.1925 cm