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- Description
- Single-reeded circular dish with deep flat well scored once near booge; no foot ring. Large, shaped touchmark of Stephen Barnes, consisting of his name in reserves above and below a circle containing stars over a spreadwing eagle, head facing right and overlapping wing, struck twice on underside of well; both partial.
- Maker is Stephen Barnes; little is known about him other than that he is believed to have worked in Middletown, CT, circa 1798-1810.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dish
- Object Type
- plate
- date made
- ca 1800
- ca 1798 - 1810
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Middletown
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 13 1/8 in; 3.175 cm x 33.3375 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0027.12
- accession number
- 1986.0027
- catalog number
- 1986.0027.12
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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