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earthenware dish
earthenware dish

earthenware dish

Datebefore 1964
Inventory Number2003-1-0057b
ClassificationDish
Subject
    Maker Fisher Scientific Company founded 1902
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions6 x 4 cm (2 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
        storage: 32 x 31 cm (12 5/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionA domed ceramic dish, glazed and gray. The dish is flat at the bottom and has a circular hole at the top. On the outside of the circular wall sloped inward is a blue stamp, somewhat faded, that reads "FISHER".
          Signedon outside of dish, stamped in blue: FISHER
          FunctionIn 1964, this object was used as a water dish for laboratory rats during an experiment in the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Physiology.
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