Plate, Communion
- Object Name:
- Plate, Communion
- Object ID:
- 1968.053.04
- Creator:
- Boardman & Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Hartford, CT/New York City, NY
- Date:
- 1825-1827
- Description:
- Communion plate. Made by Boardman & Company, New York, NY. Pewter. Circular dish with rounded bottom, upward curving rim and single-reeded edge. Incised line encircling inner bottom surface, at base of booge. Impressed marks on bottom: "X", two eagle touches, and "BOARDMAN & Co./ NEW-YORK" in circle around eagle. Paper label taped on bottom with loan information.
- Material:
- Metal
Pewter - Dimensions:
- H-1.125 Dia-10.875 inches
- Provenance:
- Owned by the Free Will Baptist Church, New Durham, NH. Plate has the maker's mark of pewterer Thomas D. Boardman (1784-1873) of Hartford, CT.
- Credit Line:
- On Loan from the Free Will Baptist Church
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