Beaker
date: label: date made
content: 1802-1810
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless, raised cylindrical cup with plain, slightly flared rim and an applied molded foot ring, engraved on exterior "M.R." in conjoined foliate script beneath a crest of a leafy tree rising from a heraldic wreath. Underside of flat bottom is struck twice "I.W.FORBES" in raised serif letters in a rectangle, and once with a five-pointed star in circle and anchor in rectangle, all arranged around the centerpoint.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Wolfe Forbes (1781-1864) of New York, NY; he appears in city directories as a silversmith working alone and in partnerships from 1802 through the 1830s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383514
label: catalog number
content: 383514
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm