Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: 1857
label: presentation date
content: 1859-05-21
notes: label: Description
content: Seamed cylindrical child's cup or mug with rococo-style repousse chased scrolls and flowers springing from a reserve at front bearing the engraved inscription "Jennie Griswold / from / her Mother. / May 21\st.. 1859."; ogival arches with flowers at rim and base. Spurred broken-scroll handle; applied molded rim and foot ring, both with beading; and flat bottom set in. Bottom underside struck once with a partially legible, vertically-oriented incuse mark "T / E / [& / Co]" over a circle and a diamond or lozenge containing "1 / 5 7 / 8"; "12" stamped sideways at left.
label: Description
content: Maker is Theodore Evans & Co. (Theodore Evans and John Cook) of New York, NY, circa 1855-1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Birthdays, General
label: Subject
content: Family
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
label: Subject
content: Girls
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miss Jennie M. Griswold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1140
label: catalog number
content: 60.1140
label: accession number
content: 56985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 in; 10.16 cm x 10.795 cm x 7.62 cm