Bowl

c. 1899

Measurements

2-1/8 in x 5-3/8 in (dia)

Materials

Pewter

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1479

Inscription

“WESTOWN [sic] 1799 – 1899” is engraved on the outside of the bowl near the rim.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

This bowl commemorates the one-hundred-year anniversary of the founding of the Westtown School, a school established under the aegis of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (i.e., Quakers) in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  Mary Corbit Warner (1848-1923), the original owner of this bowl, attended the Westtown School from 1864 to 1866.

The bowl appears to be a reproduction made as a centennial gift for alumnae.  Chatter marks on the outside bottom, made while the cast bowl was smoothed on a lathe, suggest the bowl was made in an early fashion.  However, the bead around the rim and the narrow foot ring are not shaped the same as early examples.