Waste Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870 - 1880
label: date made
content: ca 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Round-bottom bowl with flared neck and bulging body on four, square-section, incurved legs, reeded on their fronts and attached to body by masks of a bearded man. Both sides of neck and body are flat chased with a rectangular reserve flanked by compound leaves and leafy volutes above a five-pointed shield bearing chevrons topped with scrolls and flanked by sprigged lines. Underside of slightly convex bottom is struck incuse "930", "TAUNTON[.] / [S]ILVER PLATE Co." and "TRIPLE PLATE.", all in serif letters. From a 5-piece coffee and tea service, DL*209041.0001-.0005.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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 Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter, in memory of her mother Margaret Armistead Appleton Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.209041.0003
label: catalog number
content: 209041.0003
label: accession number
content: 209041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, waste
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 5 in; 9.525 cm x 12.7 cm