Sauceboat
date: label: date made
content: ca 1795
notes: label: Description
content: Raised ovoid sauceboat with rounded sides and narrow pouring lip on a circular flared or trumpet-shape pedestal atop a flat oval base with applied seamed sides; cast beading at rim and bottom edge of pedestal. One side of body is engraved "JPG" in conjoined foliate script inside a heart-shaped cartouche topped by a tripartite scroll motif draped with bright-cut swags; two crossed ears of wheat below. Double C-curve handle has an open-ended, scrolled leaf upper terminal and split bud lower terminal. Centerpunch on underside of rounded body. Underside of flat base struck twice "JLownes" in raised script in a partially-conforming rectangle; pedestal underside scratched "twt / 27,,2".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383544
label: catalog number
content: 383544
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sauceboat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 7 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 15.24 cm x 18.0975 cm x 10.4775 cm