Kettle and Stand
date: label: date made
content: ca 1853
label: date made
content: ca 1853 - 1857
name: label: maker; retailer
content: Bailey and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled, raised globular kettle with overall Chinoserie and floral repousse chased decoration on a circular stand having four S-scroll legs topped by crowned bearded man's masks in scallop shells and ending in shell feet that are connected by floral garlands. Flared, swing-up, hinged lid with downturned, scalloped edge features an Oriental man seated cross-legged with his left hand on left knee and right arm against body for finial. Continuous landscape design around body depicts on front a bird in flight above two men, one holding flowers and the other a lantern on pole, walking towards each other at river's edge framed by pavilion complexes and two inclined pines, a lamppost at right and additional juts of land with pagodas and a sampan in distance; back has large pine and coconut trees bending over bridge to form empty reserve at center. Bail handle has a hollow, bow-shaped grip pinned into thin ivory insulators and cast S-curve supports; bow face decorated with a cast cartouche applied at center amidst engraved flowers, while underside has ruffled acanthus. S-curve spout covered with acanthus and overlapping ruffled shells; body perforated at spout. Cast garlands on the stand hide the burner frame which holds a removable, ring-handled, bowl-shaped, double spirit burner with screw top on plain footring; wicks included. Pins on small link chains fastened to the stand fit into three- and five-knuckle hinges on opposite sides of kettle to secure it in place and allow it to tilt.
label: Description
content: Underside of kettle and burner both struck above and below centerpunch: "BAILEY & CO." and "PHILAD." in raised roman letters in rectangles; kettle is scratched "233" between those marks, while burner has three additional marks oriented sideways between them (spreadwing eagle clutching laurel leaves and arrows in rounded rectangle above the raised roman letters "U" and "S" in ovals). Faint track marks across burner underside. No marks on stand.
label: Description
content: Part of six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*276317.0001-.0006.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place owned
content: United States: Maryland, Chevy Chase
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: decorative motif
content: Chinese
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marion Leigh Wells
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.276317.0002
label: catalog number
content: 276317.0002
label: accession number
content: 276317
label: catalog number
content: 276317.1-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kettle
label: Object Name
content: stand, kettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (wicks material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/8 in x 11 in x 10 1/2 in; 33.9725 cm x 27.94 cm x 26.67 cm