Creamer, 1774
date: label: date made
content: ca 1774
name: label: maker
content: Dupuy, Daniel
notes: label: Description
content: The East India Company was the wealthiest private corporation of the day. Parliament gave its stockholders a bailout by giving the company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade in 1773. They also kept a tax on the tea. Patriots in nearly every colony blocked sale of the tea, either reshipping it back to England or forcibly storing it in locked warehouses. Boston was the first city to destroy East India Company tea, in December 1773. This silver creamer reminded tea drinkers not to indulge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: depicted
content: Indians
label: depicted
content: Native Americans
label: Subject
content: American colonies
label: depicted
content: Liberty Cap
label: Subject
content: Revolutionary War
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0219.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0219
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0219.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jug, cream
label: Object Name
content: pot, milk
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 11 cm x 6.5 cm; 4 17/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 2 9/16 in