Waste Bowl

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Description:

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.

Date Made: ca 1870 - 1880ca 1875

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, TauntonPlace Used: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge

Subject: Tea Drinking

Subject:

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Gift of Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter, in memory of her mother Margaret Armistead Appleton Baker

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.209041.0003Catalog Number: 209041.0003Accession Number: 209041

Object Name: bowl, waste

Physical Description: silver plate (overall material)electroplated (overall production method/technique)Measurements: overall: 3 3/4 in x 5 in; 9.525 cm x 12.7 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-ef93-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_300770

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