Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: 1848 - 1852
notes: label: Description
content: Seamed cylindrical cup or mug with rococo-style, repousse chased scrolls and flowers forming a reserve at front engraved "Carrie" in calligraphic letters; additional blossoms and butterflies or moths around sides. Hollow, spurred broken scroll handle with split terminal; applied molded rim and foot ring, both with beading; and flat bottom set in. Bottom underside struck above and below centerpoint "T.Y.&E." and "NEW•YORK", both in raised serif letters in rectangles, and with a vertical mark "W / & / H" in an oval.
label: Description
content: Made by Wood & Hughes for Tiffany, Young & Ellis of New York, NY; marks used, 1848-1852. "Ellis" is the donor's father, Jabez Lewis Ellis.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place retailed
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Baby
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
label: Subject
content: Girls
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Charlotte Ellis Danforth in memory of J. Lewis Ellis and Olive M. Ellis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300500
label: catalog number
content: 300500
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.255 cm