Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1797
notes: label: Description
content: Raised circular urn-shape teapot with double-flared or -trumpeted, hinged lid topped by a large cast ball on a flared circular pedestal atop a square base with applied sides; one side of body is engraved with a large shaded foliate script "G". Beading at edges of lid, base of almost flat, incurved neck, top and bottom of pedestal, face and back of the S-curve spout and at tops of the cylindrical sockets, into which is pinned a C-curve handle with scrolled waterleaf. Body perforated at spout. Outside of base opposite monogram is struck "I•M\c/.Mullin" in raised italic roman letters in a rectangle. Inside of lid incised "oz / 22= dwt / 13". No marks on underside. Part of a six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*037807-DL*037812.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place used
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: Gift of Miss Harriet A. Keen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.037809
label: catalog number
content: 037809
label: accession number
content: 117389
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tea Pot
label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 7/8 in x 10 in x 4 3/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 25.4 cm x 11.1125 cm