Brooklyn Museum: Decorative Arts: Serving Dish

Serving Dish

Maker: Derby Silver Company
Medium: Silver-plate on nickel silver (white metal)
Place Manufactured: Derby, Connecticut, USA
Dates: ca. 1910
Dimensions: 1 5/8 x 14 x 14 in. (4.1 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Markings: Stamped on underside, near edge: "14 / DERBY S.P.CO. / INTERNATIONAL S. CO. / 4105 / EPNS [Gothic letters in shields] / W.M. MOUNTS / HAND BEATEN"
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 87.21
Credit Line: H. Randolph Lever Fund
Image: Overall, 87.21_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Serving dish, silver-plate on nickel silver (white metal). Circular dish with deep bouge; flat rim with plain applied band. Edge of rim articulated in eight sections alternating serpentine scallops and flat, slightly rounded sections. Bouge and rim showing unplanished hammer marks in the arts-and-crafts manner. CONDITION: Much wear and surface scratches, otherwise fine.

Collections: Decorative Arts: Serving Dish