Small plate, used as a paten (communion plate). Circular, with single reed brim, marked on bottom with initials "I.CH." and Jacobs touch #169. Double incised lines near brim and single incised line within sunken bottom.
Lovebird mark, albeit is not completely struck, which is two facing birds with the initials LO and VE.
Inscription Type
Hallmark
Object Name
Plate, Food
Material
Pewter
Makers Mark
The plate was not made in London as one mark suggests. The love mark was used over a long period of time, ca. 1750-1840, and by a succession of Philadelphia pewterers.
Porcelain plate with hand-painted floral decoration.
Blue flowers
Hand-painted cluster of small 5-petaled light blue flowers beginning on the bottom outer edge of 1" rim, flowing upward toward center of plate, filling aobut 1/3 of the surface. At the top, a yellow butterfly flies up toward the outer edge.