Collection Highlights
Chaise (side chair)
1779
1817.13
Beech, gilding; silk upholstery
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Vegetable dishes with covers
Object name
Vegetable dishes with covers
Date
1791/92
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
each overall: 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 in. ( 14 x 21.9 cm )
Description
Pair of wrought silver vegetable dishes; deep, circular bodies with curved sides and applied beaded bands around the rims; two, cast, hinged bail handles applied to the opposite sides of the bodies; circular, stepped, domed covers with applied beaded bands around the edges and around the centers; covers surmounted by cast, cauliflower finials; each engraved with the Lenox family crest on the covers and the bowls, a crowned lion passant on fess; maker's marks stamped on the sides.
Credit Line
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.; The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection
Object Number
1950.254a-d
Marks
engraved: on the sides: "RS" in roman letters in a rectangle, a lion passant in a rectangle, a crowned leopard's head in a shield and "q" in a shield