Tilting Kettle and Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1906
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, spiral-lobed, compressed globular tilting kettle with Chinoiserie decoration, including a cast and applied fixed crabstock bail handle, S-curve spout springing from an inverted dragon's head at its base, and crabstock knop on the circular, hinged lid. Ten chased and repousse panels on its body depict bamboo, chrysanthemums or peonies, flowering prunus branches and dragons, all on a finely-textured ground; Oriental scenes on two side panels feature a scholar in boat and two travellers on foot opposite a man with fan and three travellers riding a donkey. Thin ivory insulators. Body perforated at spout. Two button knobs at sides fit onto an arched crabstock stand with circular frame attached inside its legs that holds a removable spirit burner with long-handled, hinged cap. Concave bottom of kettle is struck on underside with two marks, "TC" and a Chinese ideogram, both in rounded rectangles. No visible marks on stand or burner. Part of a four-piece service, DL*62.0334A-D.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Shanghai, Shanghai
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: China Trade
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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 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wallace Dunn, Jr., in memory of Lillian Lash and Arthur Wallace Dunn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0334B
label: catalog number
content: 62.0334B
label: accession number
content: 241778
label: catalog number
content: 62.0334E
label: catalog number
content: 62.0334F
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kettle
label: Object Name
content: stand, kettle
label: Object Name
content: burner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators, burner handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (burner wick material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 7 in; 26.9875 cm x 21.59 cm x 17.78 cm