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Dish

Date1720-1754

Maker Joseph Leddel Sr. (ca. 1690 - 1754)

Maker Joseph Leddel Jr. (1718 - 1754)

OriginAmerica, New York, New York City

MediumPewter

DimensionsDiameter: 12”; Height: 1”

Credit LineGift of Mary Connor Pierce

Object number2021-212

DescriptionCircular pewter dish with single-beaded edge, moderate width rim, and flat central well.
Label TextJoseph Leddel, Sr., is among the first generation of pewterers in America for whom work survives, albeit in limited quantiles. His son Joseph, Jr., was also a pewterer; it is difficult to distinguish between their output.
MarkingsStamped on back of well in relief two times with a rope-work oval containing a three-masted sailing ship beneath a balance (?), and once with “I•FROM•L/OLD:ENGLAND” in stacked rectangles with engrailed edges.
ProvenanceHenry and Marjorie James, Wakfield, RI
Charles V. Swain, 1959
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH. Sold August 3, 2007, lot # 471
Mary Conner Pierce, 2007