Dish
- Object Name:
- Dish
- Object ID:
- 1978.029
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Fruit dish. Cold-rolled silver, over brass base metal. Oval basket has shaped, beaded rim, with swinging handle on two lug hinges. Oval pedestal base, which is soldered to basket. Conjoined leaf decoration in center. Engraved in script, "Mrs Emma Proctor. / from the / Scholars of / District No4." Scratched on bottom of base in script, "ZXX / Mac".
- Material:
- Metal
Silver
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-9 W-11.5 D-8.75 inches
- Provenance:
- The basket was a wedding present to the donor's grandmother from the pupils of District 5. (This information is in a letter from Alexis Proctor to John Page of the NHHS and contradicts the inscription). According to family tradition, the basket was a present from her students to Emma G. Gage (1828-1901) at her marriage to Alexis Proctor (1826-1915), who was also a teacher in Derry, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alexis Chapman Proctor
- Subjects:
- Presentation, Weddings, Education, Teachers
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