Magdalene Portable Font
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1840
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Minton and Company, British, 1793 - 1968
notes: label: Description
content: Font (a) with cover (b) of gothic arches formed from radiating cyma curves which result in a peaked dome shape. Segments of the dome are adorned with foliate patterns. The font is further decorated with tresfoils around the body of the basin and quatrefoils at the lip of both the basin and the lid. The font rises on a stepped plinth and an octagonal base.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Stoke-on-Trent, England
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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 Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2018-33-3-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: portable font and cover
label: Type
content: portable font and cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: glazed earthenware
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 33 × 16.5 cm (13 in. × 6 1/2 in.)