Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1854
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, compressed globular teapot with equal-height, incurved neck and pedestal base and creased, tapered shoulder and underbelly. Wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid is topped by button knop. Black-japanned, spurred, S- and C-curve handle is pinned into leafy spiral sockets. S-scroll spout with D-shaped lip, slight crease on face and rounded belly. Plain body has a finely turned, tinned interior and is perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom is struck "[J.] D.LOCKE / [N]EW YORK" in rectangle and "N\o. 15" with "1854", all in roman letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is J. D. Locke of New York, NY; working 1835-1860. Mold appears identical to that used for teapot DL*300859.0031 by Josiah Danforth of Middletown, CT, 1821-circa 1843.
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: Gift of Roger Pryor Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.0608
label: catalog number
content: 59.0608
label: accession number
content: 219034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 10 3/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 21.59 cm x 26.3525 cm x 15.5575 cm