Hot Water Urn
date: label: date made
content: 1871
label: patent date
content: 1870-07-19
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, ovoid hot water urn with incurved neck and low-domed cover topped by a cross-and-flared-square finial on four legs ending in lion's paw feet. Flat-chased mimosa foliage on body and a curvilinear cross design on lid. Sharply-angled handles, square in section, have scroll-ended upper terminals and square-and-scroll lower terminals. Circular lion's masks are at top corners of handles and middle of leg mounts. Double-baluster spigot has twist handle with knobs. Circular frame riveted to interior of legs holds a removable, scroll-handled, single-wick spirit burner. Underside of concave base is struck incuse with a circular mark containing a pointed shield with balanced scales bordered by "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY" in sans serif letters; "PATENT APPLIED FOR" is stamped above and "1877" below. From a six-piece coffee and tea service, 1984.0424.13-.18.
label: Description
content: Maker is Meriden Britannia Company of Meriden, CT. Meriden Britannia Co. was founded in 1852 and became a subsidiary of International Silver Co. in 1898; International continued to use the Meriden name and mark until at least the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: Patented
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Insilco Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0424.18
label: accession number
content: 1984.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0424.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: urn, hot water
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (knobs material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 37.465 cm x 31.75 cm x 26.035 cm