Circular brass charger with flat bottom and short sides. Engraved Arabic style decoration of three crescent shapes filled with six-pointed stars and squares with Arabic script. Crescent shapes are separated by three plant like shapes. Sides of tray have engraved arch decoration.
chargers (platters)
brass (alloy)
Charger
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
5/8 (H), 11 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1718
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