Creamer
date: label: date made
content: 1865-1870
name: label: retailer
content: Tiffany & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Spherical creamer on circular foot ring; upper half of body has a flat-chased scrollwork band with two circular reserves, one engraved with the monogram "CEE", and is joined to the plain lower half by a denticulate-patterned midband. Short, incuved neck rises to cusped rim with wide pouring lip. Hollow, C-curve handle has stylized palmate or anthemion terminals. Underside of slightly convex bottom struck around centerpoint, "TIFFANY & CO." and "550 BROADWAY" encircling "1516", "QUALITY / 925-1000" flanked on both sides by a gothic or Old English "M", and "2749".
label: Description
content: Made by John C. Moore & Son for Tiffany & Co., both of New York, NY; the above mark used, 1865-1870. Moore & Son (John Chandler Moore and Edward Chandler Moore) was in operation, 1849-1868; they produced exclusively for Tiffany, which purchased the company in 1868 (Edward C. Moore then became head of Tiffany's silver department, a position he held until his death in 1891).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300564
label: catalog number
content: 300564
objectType: label: Object Name
content: creamer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 13.0175 cm x 9.525 cm