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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Dish
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Dish

Manufacturer Thomas Danforth III (American, 1792-1836)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1810
MediumPewter
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
InscribedStamped on reverse: Eagle in a circle with initials "TD"; also "T. Danforth/PhiladA" in rectangles.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.1054
Not on view
DescriptionPlain round deep dish with incised circle on inside bottom.

Exhibition HistoryMyers House/Old Kitchen Published ReferencesLedlie Irwin Laughlin, PEWTER IN AMERICA, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940), p. 371-371; Ralph M. and Terry H. Kovel, A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SILVER, PEWTER AND SILVERPLATE, (Crown Publishers, New York, 1961), p. 309.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Thomas Danforth
ca. 1810
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Thomas Danforth II
ca. 1765
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Thomas Danforth
ca. 1820
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Joseph Danforth
ca. 1790
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Joseph Danforth
ca. 1760
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Thomas Arnold
1739-1828
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
The Thomas Co.
ca. 1920
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
1800-1830
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Samuel Green
ca. 1800
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Gershom Jones
ca. 1790
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
ca. 1800
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Thomas Badger
ca. 1817