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

Plate

Manufacturer David Melville

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1790

MediumPewter

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm)

InscribedMarked on bottom.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.2365.26

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Old Kitchen

Exhibition HistoryMyers House/Old Kitchen Published ReferencesLedlie Irwin Laughlin, PEWTER IN AMERICA, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940), p. 435; Ralph M. and Terry H. Kovel, A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SILVER, PEWTER AND SILVERPLATE, (Crown Publishers, New York, 1961), p. 321.