English creamware circular plate with scalloped edges. Dish has blue glaze band and the monogram "JD" within a circle with a vine pattern. The back of the plate has a carving that resembles a bug with wing and the number nine.
plates (dishes)
Plate
"symbol / 9" (etched in the back of the dish)
"JD" (Blue ink in cursive font)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD168
Unknown
3 /4 x 1/2 (HxD), 6 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1872.3
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