Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Squat baluster-shape teapot with a slightly domed, hinged lid topped by a ring of floral scrolls, a matching cast floral rim and sprig decoration on its body in imitation of bright-cut engraving; flat bottom. C-curve handle has a scrolled acanthus sprig and conical struts. S-curve spout with acanthus at lip and leafy scrolls at sides of wide ribbed base. Perforated convex strainer applied inside body at spout. Bottom underside struck incuse with a horizontal-banded circular mark for "BRISTOL (arched) / PLATE CO. (across center in band) / U.S.A. / QUADRUPLE PLATE (curved)" in sans serif letters above "357". Inside lid struck "24". From a four-piece tea service, DL*66.0275-.0278.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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 Mrs. Steven T. Myers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.66.0275
label: catalog number
content: 66.0275
label: accession number
content: 263347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 8 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in; 17.78 cm x 21.59 cm x 13.0175 cm