Coffee Urn
date: label: date made
content: 1867 - 1871
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: D-handled, coffee or hot water urn with tall cylindrical neck and ovoid lower body on circular, domed pedestal base mounted by four cast elk or stag head's legs with hoof feet; rounded cover is topped by a cube-and-ball finial. Cover, neck and body feature flat-chased curvilinear arches and pendants with shells and rosettes at their centers; body has swags with tassels connecting the pendants and two empty rectangular reserves at front and back. Knuckled-arm spigot has twist handle with bone knobs. Scroll-bracketed circular frame attached to interior of legs holds a removable, scroll-handled, single-wick spirit burner. Underside of base struck incuse with the circular, balanced-scales-in-shield mark of "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY", overstruck by another incuse circular mark for "ROGERS & BRO. / WATERBURY CONN." in serif letters; both above "1874 1/2".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
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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 Insilco Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0424.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0424.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: urn, coffee
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone or ivory (knobs material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (wick material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 9 7/8 in; 42.8625 cm x 27.305 cm x 25.0825 cm