Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: 1820 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, scalloped-body coffeepot engraved "AB" in script with a tall incurved neck, flat shoulder and double belly on a domed, circular pedestal base. Round-top, hinged lid has an ivory rosette knop with acorn finial. S-curve wood handle with crescent thumbrest is pinned into a spiral-scroll upper socket and cylindrical lower socket. S-curve spout has elongated D-shaped lip, faceted face and round belly. Body perforated at spout. Underside struck "6" for number of cups it holds. From a coffee- and teapot pair, DL*300417-300418.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Women
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charlotte Ellis Danforth in memory of J. Lewis Ellis and Olive M. Ellis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300418
label: catalog number
content: 300418
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (knop material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 28.8925 cm x 16.51 cm