Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: 1837 - 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Urn-shape coffeepot with tall, incurved neck, flared shoulder and tapered cylindrical body on flared and molded, circular pedestal base; base of neck and shoulder are scored. Tiered, high-domed, hinged lid with overhanging edge is topped by wood mushroom knop. Black-japanned, spurred C- and S-curve handle is pinned into cylindrical sockets. Body is perforated at plain S-scroll spout with split lip. Inset flat bottom has rectangular mark on inside and is struck incuse on underside "R. DUNHAM" in raised serif letters in a scalloped rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is Rufus Dunham of Westbrook, Maine (1816-1893); working 1837-1860.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Westbrook
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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 Wallace H. Andrews
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0217.18
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0217.18
label: accession number
content: 1993.0217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (knop material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (finish on knop and handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 10 3/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 29.845 cm x 26.3525 cm x 13.97 cm