Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1882
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Small, Aesthetic-style, raised and spot-hammered, apple-shaped teapot; oxblood finish with applied silver decoration on opposite sides of an owl in a two-branched tree with linear-veined leaves and two moths or butterflies flying near a flowering branch of cherry or fruit blossoms. Low-domed, flared cover with ribbed ebony knop. High-arched, cane-wrapped bail handle is looped around rings attached at shoulders. Tinned interior. Body perforated at spout. Underside of concave bottom is struck with four incuse marks, an anchor in shield, "GORHAM CO." in sans serif letters, and "Y51" above "O" in serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0199.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0199
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0199.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (body, cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (knop material)
label: Physical Description
content: cane (handle wrapping material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 5 in x 5 3/8 in; 11.43 cm x 12.7 cm x 13.6525 cm