Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: 1775
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, baluster- or pear-shaped coffeepot with a double-domed, hinged lid topped by a cast knop on a short, incurved and domed circular foot; body is engraved with a heraldic device of a coat of arms in foliate-scroll reserve surmounted by a crest of a bear's or lion's gamb or paw on wreath. S-curve spout has scalloped base and graduated beads on upper back and front. Spurred, S-curve handle is pinned into an upper socket with pendant shell and drop and a split-scroll lower socket with diamond- or lozenge-shaped plate. Single hole in body at spout. Underside of rounded bottom is struck with four hallmarks, "WC" in raised serif letters in a rectangular surround overstriking the centerpoint, a lion passant guardant in shield, and two illegible date letters. Inside of lid also struck with a lion passant guardant in shield.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: place used
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles C. Sinclair
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0007
label: catalog number
content: 62.0007
label: accession number
content: 236641
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 9 in x 4 3/8 in; 29.21 cm x 22.86 cm x 11.1125 cm