Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1882
label: date used
content: 1882 - 1982
notes: label: Description
content: Bell-shaped coffeepot with double-domed, hinged lid topped by a cast urn knop on four, cast, splayed legs with pairs of rosettes, a pendant drop and bellflower, and D-shaped feet. Sides of body are flat-chased with a geometric-patterned, diamond-and-fan motif encircled by holly-type leaves with an eight-petaled flower below and dot-and-wavy-line band with pendant triangles and oak-type leaves above; die-rolled bands of paterae at rim and base. Hollow, angular handle and S-curve spout have a similar stylized anthemion or palmate design on their faces and diaper patterning at bases. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom struck incuse "ROCKFORD / SILVER PLATE CO." in sans serif letters encircling balanced scales with "6" and "QUADRUPLE" above and "960" below; "2/6/8" scratched faintly to upper right and "REM" engraved upside down below. From a three-piece coffee or tea service, 1982.0114.01-.03; coffeepot is a different pattern than the sugar bowl and creamer.
label: Description
content: Maker is Rockford Silver Plate Co. of Rockford, IL, 1882-1956. Successor to Racine Silver Plate Co. of Racine, WI, 1873-1882; became Sheets-Rockford in 1925.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Rockford
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
label: place used
content: United States: California, Hemet
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: Gift of Ruth E. Moore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0114.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0114
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0114.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 7/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 5 in; 27.6225 cm x 22.5425 cm x 12.7 cm