Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1785
name: label: silversmith
content: Revere, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, double-bellied, baluster- or pear-shaped teapot with a domed and flared, hinged lid topped by a cast urn knop on a tall, flared pedestal base with circular foot; one side of body has an empty, wheelwork engraved, pointed-oval reserve with scrolls above and bowknot below. Applied beading at rim of lid and outside edge of foot, and graduated beads on sides of cast, S-curve spout. Spurred, S-curve handle is pinned into a curved, cylindrical upper socket and scroll-ended lower socket with a diamond- or lozenge-shaped plate. Hole in body at spout. Outside of foot is struck twice "REVERE" in raised serif letters in a rectangle, both partial. Centerpunch on bottom underside.
label: Description
content: The attribution of this teapot to Paul Revere, Jr. (1702/3-1758) is questionable.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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.383564
label: catalog number
content: 383564
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 34.925 cm x 22.225 cm x 10.795 cm