Mug
date: label: date made
content: 1810 - 1820
notes: label: Description
content: Raised bulbous or bellied cann or mug engraved "RUTH BRADLEE" on front in shaded block letters. Molded rim, rounded bottom, and cast stepped circular foot. Hollow, double C-scroll handle has a sprigged upper terminal with flared strut and a split scroll lower terminal with cylindrical strut and oval attachment. Bottom underside struck above and below centerpoint "PERKINS" in incuse serif letters with possible traces of a surround.
label: Description
content: Maker is Jacob Perkins (1766-1829); worked in Newburyport, 1783-1816, in Boston briefly, and in Philadelphia, from 1816.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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.383560
label: catalog number
content: 383560
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 4 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 11.7475 cm x 8.89 cm