Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1906
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, spiral-lobed, compressed globular teapot with Chinoiserie decoration, including a cast and applied S-curve dragon handle, S-curve spout springing from an inverted dragon's head at its base, and crabstock knop on the circular, hinged lid. Ten chased and repousse panels on body depict bamboo, chrysanthemums or peonies, flowering prunus branches and dragons, all on a finely-textured ground; Oriental scenes on two side panels feature a scholar in boat and two travellers on foot opposite a man with fan and three travellers riding a donkey. Thin ivory insulators. Body perforated at spout. Plain, flat bottom is struck on underside with two marks, "TC" and a Chinese ideogram, both in rounded rectangles. Part of a four-piece service, DL*62.0334A-D.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Shanghai, Shanghai
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: China Trade
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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 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wallace Dunn, Jr., in memory of Lillian Lash and Arthur Wallace Dunn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0334A
label: catalog number
content: 62.0334A
label: accession number
content: 241778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 13.97 cm x 25.7175 cm x 14.2875 cm