Beaker
date: label: date made
content: ca 1815
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with straight tapered sides and applied molded rim and foot ring; flat bottom set in. Engraved on exterior "PME" in conjoined foliate script. Bottom underside struck once "C•A•BURNETT" in raised serif letters in a rectangle flanked by a right-facing, standing spreadwing eagle in a clipped-corner surround (the one at left right-side up; the one at right upside-down).
label: Description
content: Maker is Charles A. Burnett (1769-1849), who worked in Fredericksburg, VA from 1788-93; Alexandria, VA from 1793-96; and Georgetown, DC from 1796-circa 1840.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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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 Roger Pryor Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.0600
label: catalog number
content: 59.0600
label: accession number
content: 219034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 6.985 cm