Tea Canister
date: label: date made
content: ca 1820 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned oval canister with friction-fit, flat cover. Canister is painted with a wide, white band around top containing circular red fruits or flowers alternating with right-leaning, lobed, triangular green leaves; black veins and overstrokes in sets of three. Yellow dot-and-drop border below, penciling at base, and brushstroke groups or leaflets on shoulder and cover. Canister is made in four pieces, the collar and body have soft-soldered lapped seams; the rounded shoulder and flat bottom have folded edges. No marks. Decoration flaking; overall losses.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Pennsylvania Filley Tinshop of Philadelphia, PA, circa 1818-1853.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322631.0023
label: catalog number
content: 322631.0023
label: accession number
content: 322631
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 3 7/16 in x 2 5/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 8.73125 cm x 6.6675 cm