Tilting kettle and stand
date: label: date kettle and stand made
content: c. 1900
label: date burner made
content: 1883
name: label: maker
content: Marcus and Company
label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Inverted pear-shaped tilting kettle decorated with intertwined rose branches around its shoulder and a cast rose finial on its swing-up, trumpet-shaped, circular lid; engraved "M\L/K" on one side above the circular, low-domed, ruffle-edged foot. Floral-decorated S-curve spout and hollow bail handle with bow grip and S-curve ends pinned into ivory insulators; body perforated at spout. Pairs of button knobs at sides fit onto two cast floral supports mounted to a matching, low-domed, circular stand that holds a removable, cylindrical spirit burner with long ivory-knob handle for diaphragm shutter; wire mesh beneath shutter and vent holes below top edge. Burner replaced; not original. From a six-piece coffee and tea service, 1980.0027.01-.06.
label: Description
content: Underside of kettle struck incuse with a stylized "M" trademark, "815" above "4 P'T'S." in roman letters,"STERLING" in sans serif letters with "5.626" scratched below. Inside of lid is scratched near edge "28\10(double underlined)". Underside of interior opening of stand has four equidistant incuse marks, a stylized "M" trademark, "815", and "MARCUS & CO." and "STERLING" in sans serif letters.
label: Description
content: Underside of burner struck incuse with Gorham trademark of lion passant facing right, an anchor, and gothic or Old English "G", all in clipped-corner outlined surrounds above "STERLING" in sans serif letters, the roman letter "P" and, at center, "PAT.APPLIED FOR" in sans serif letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Marcus & Co., of New York, NY; 1892-1962 (merged with Black, Starr & Frost; founded 1810-present).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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 Henry and Mary K. Porter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0027.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0027
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0027.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0027.01-06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kettle
label: Object Name
content: stand, kettle
label: Object Name
content: burner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators, burner handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire mesh (burner top material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 7 in; 23.8125 cm x 24.4475 cm x 17.78 cm