Chocolate Pot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Small, plain, ovoid or egg-shaped pot on a short, molded pedestal base with a low-domed, hinged lid topped by ball-and-spool knop; the tapered, S-curved spout is perpendicular to the turned wooden handle in socket. One large hole in the spun body at spout. Three incuse marks for maker and pattern stamped on underside of body.
label: Description
content: Maker is Frans Santesson (1834-1916) of Stockholm, Sweden; working, circa 1862-1916. Santesson was best-known for his steins.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden: Stockholm, Stockholm
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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 Laura Barney-Dreyfus in memory of Alice Pike Barney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.366251
label: catalog number
content: 366251
label: accession number
content: 124063
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
label: Object Name
content: chocolate pot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 6 7/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 17.4625 cm x 10.795 cm