Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1820 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, scalloped-body teapot engraved "AB" in script with a short incurved neck, flat shoulder and double belly on a domed, circular pedestal base. Round-top, hinged lid has an ivory rosette knop with cast acorn finial. High, C-curve wood handle with scrolled thumbrest is pinned into conical sockets. Tapered S-curve spout has D-shaped lip and flat face, belly and sides. Body perforated at spout. Underside struck "5" for number of cups it holds and scratched with an illegible name. 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: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
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.300417
label: catalog number
content: 300417
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
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: 7 7/8 in x 11 3/8 in x 6 3/4 in; 20.0025 cm x 28.8925 cm x 17.145 cm