Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1859
label: engraved date
content: 1859
notes: label: Description
content: Seamed, straight-sided oval teapot with flared shoulder and domed oval, hinged lid topped by cast acorns; flat bottom set in. Symmetrical bright-cut decoration on both sides features a pointed shield amidst festoons, one is engraved "MEA" in conjoined foliate script and the other "1859". Additional garlands and sprigs follow the bellied S-curve spout and right-angled handle, almost square in section, which is pinned into rounded insulators and C-curve sockets. Rollerwork and applied beading at lid, rim, shoulder, top and bottom of body, and base of spout. Body perforated at spout. Bottom underside is struck with four incuse marks for "GALE & WILLIS". Part of a three-piece tea service, DL*64.0138A-C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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 Josephine Arthur Rohrer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.64.0138A
label: catalog number
content: 64.0138A
label: accession number
content: 250794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 3/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 19.05 cm x 26.3525 cm x 11.7475 cm