bowl, waste
bowl, waste
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- Description
- Handleless, raised bulbous baluster-shaped waste bowl with everted rim of angular twisted branches and overall chased and repousse grapevine decoration on four cast feet of looped branches of blooming flowers. Underside of rounded bottom struck below centerpoint with Gorham trademark of a lion passant facing left, an anchor, and the raised roman letter "G", all in clipped-corner surrounds, above "COIN" in incuse roman letters; "09071" is scratched at lower left, "15/3" is faintly scratched above, and four lines of geometric shapes, also faint and rubbed or worn away, are to right. From a six-piece coffee and tea service, 1988.0569.01-.06.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- bowl, waste
- date made
- c. 1855-1860
- maker
- Gorham Manufacturing Company
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 5 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 14.605 cm
- ID Number
- 1988.0569.06
- accession number
- 1988.0569
- catalog number
- 1988.0569.06
- 1988.0569.01-06
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carleton C. and Imogene C. Brower
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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