Hot Water Urn
date: label: Date
content: 1770–1771
name: label: Maker
content: Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: (a) Ovoid body with fluting at top and bottom. Beaded vertical scroll handles fastened to body with twin leaves and berries. Fluted and foliated spigot with bone handle. Engraved coat of arms: Parter per fess, gules, two mullets and sun in its splendor; azure, a citadel with two towers; impaled with argent, a chevron azure, three holly leaves slipped, vertical. (b) High, concave cover, with bulging fluted top and flame finial. (c) Rectangular stand with openwork scrolled apron and four ball-and-claw feet.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-166-103-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: hot water urn
label: Type
content: hot water urn
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver, bone
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (overall): 51.1 × 28.5 × 29.4 cm (20 1/8 × 11 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: urn): 22 × 31.1 × 29 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b: lid): 13 × 9.9 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c: stand): 18.2 × 17 × 17 cm (7 3/16 × 6 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.)