Dish

Object Details

Description

Circular, shallow, clear cranberry, blown bowl or dish with pinched rim and white enamel and gilt decoration that rests inside a two-handled circular frame on four splayed legs with scrolled brackets and flat shell feet. Bowl interior is painted with a child in Victorian dress standing in profile facing right surrounded by clusters of flowers. Frame has cast leaves and a pair of flying doves on rosette-decorated blocks applied to its curved wire handles, and a die-rolled band of overlapping arches encircling its lower edge. Small circular disc affixed inside of frame is struck with two incuse marks, "JAMES W. TUFTS / BOSTON / WARRANTED / QUADRUPLE PLATE" arranged in a circle around a "T" at center of a four-pointed star, and "2268".

Frame manufacturer is James W. Tufts (1835-1902) of Charlestown and Boston, MA. Tufts was an apothecary store apprentice who went on to open his own chain of drugstores in Massachusetts. His interest in sodas sold at his stores led him to invent and patent the Artic soda fountain in 1863 and he served as the first president of the Artic Soda Fountain Co. (later merged into the American Soda Fountain Co.). He diversified his business by manufacturing soda fountain equipment and, beginning in 1875, a variety of silverplated wares (not all were soda-related). He retired to North Carolina in 1895, where he worked with Frederick Law Olmstead to develop the town of Pinehurst. The silverplating business continued under his name until around 1915.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Bequest of Lois H. Garvin

ca 1875-1891

ID Number

1994.0145.06

catalog number

1994.0145.06

accession number

1994.0145

Object Name

dish

Physical Description

glass (bowl or dish material)

enamel (bowl decoration material)

gilt (bowl decoration material)

silver plate (stand material)

electroplated (stand production method/technique)

Measurements

overall: 6 3/8 in x 12 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 31.115 cm x 20.0025 cm

place stand made

United States: Massachusetts, Boston

place bowl made

United States: Massachusetts, Sandwich

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National Museum of American History

Record ID

nmah_1161018

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-ec7a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa