Object Name: Dish, Serving
Object ID: 1973.072.02
Creator: Meriden Britannia CompanyManufacturer
Place of Origin: Meriden, CT
Date: 1869 circa
Description: Covered Serving Dish. Silver, and enameled iron. Four parts to the object: dish, enameled inner pan, removable rim, and removable lid. The dish is round with 2 lug handles. Decorated on the outside in repousse diagonal lines. Three bands on each side of the handles. Same pattern on lid, with all the lines converging in the center in a swirl pattern. Projecting disk handle on lid with a ball finial. Maker's mark stamped on the bottom of dish: two overlapping circles with text in left circle, "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY", in the center of the which is a scale within a shield mark; the right circle as, "QUADRUPLE / PLATE". Stamped underneath the maker's mark is, "PATDFEB.9.1869 / 127 / U.S.A.". Inner pan is fully enameled, blue on the exterior and white on the interior. No maker's marks seen on enameled pan.
OBJECT REGISTER:
A. Serving Dish.
B. Lid.
C. Enameled Pan. 523 grams, 18.45 oz., 9.375" diam., 2.375" high.
D. Removable Rim.
Material: Metal
Silver
Stoneware
Dimensions: H-5.25 W-13.625 D-10.5 inches
Provenance: One of a pair of covered vegetable dishes given by donor, with no specific history.
Other gifts from the same donor -- Foster Sturtevant, 1899-1979 -- (1977.7, et. al) were contents of his Concord, N.H. multi-generational family homestead, or contents of a South Chatham summer camp which he purchased in the 1940s.
Credit Line: Gift of Foster E. Sturtevant
People:
Sturtevant, Foster E. (1898-1979)