Description:
Round hammered, shallow pewter dish with acid etched floral design border. Inscription on back of dish is engraved into metal: "To Elizabeth and Bob/ from Aunt Harriet/ July 10, 1940 Old Deerfield, Mass. / S.R." The dish was a wedding gift to Elizabeth Shaw and Robert Breck Williams, married in Webster, Massachusetts in 1940. According to Suzanne Flynt, Poetry to the Earth: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, there were were several women in Deerfield who were associated with the production of pewter - Isadora Pratt Taylor (1850-1943), Sheila McCarthy, Martha Pasco, and Sarah A. Rossiter (1893-1976). In 1938 Sarah A. Rossiter moved to Deerfield with her husband, Wynn Rossiter, and from 1939 to 1941, she sold "Hand Wrought and Etched Pewter" at Deerfield Industries exhibitions at the Indian House Memorial. Photographs of her work, primarily shallow dishes etched with repetitive floral motifs, illustrated in Robley D. and Mary Elizabeth Snively's book Metalwork. Rossister served as secretary of Deerfield Industries from 1939 to 1944.
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