Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1833-1845
name: label: maker
content: Gale, Wood & Hughes
notes: label: Description
content: Inverted pear-shaped, serpentine-paneled teapot engraved "AMC" in conjoined foliate script on a stepped pedestal base with circular foot. Stepped and domed, hinged lid is topped by a cast urn filled with flowers and a plumed scroll, and fits inside the everted, reverse cyma-edged rim above incurved neck. Applied beading at base of neck, top of pedestal, and foot. Spurred, faceted, S-curve handle is pinned into ivory insulators and scrolled sockets. Seamed, S-curve spout has a faceted lower half, raised ring at middle, and split lip with applied drop on top. Body perforated at spout. Underside of rounded bottom struck with maker's mark between two pseudo-hallmarks. Centerpunch visible. Part of a three-piece service, 1988.0252.1-.3.
label: Description
content: Maker is Gale, Wood & Hughes (William Gale Sr., Jacob Wood, and Jasper Hughes) of New York, NY; in partnership, 1833-1845.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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 Donald Beggs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0252.1
label: accession number
content: 1988.0252
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0252.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 11 7/8 in x 6 5/8 in; 28.2575 cm x 30.1625 cm x 16.8275 cm