Pot
date: label: date made
content: 1820 - 1830
notes: label: Description
content: Large, shallow-belly cooking pot with wide angled rim, tapered triangular-section curved ears, and three fillets (all around body) on three, heavily fire-eroded, triangular-section legs. Hollow cast in a three-part mold with two parallel gate marks on bottom underside. No other marks. Together with a pair of pot tongs having two hooked-end curved arms hinged with pin that attach to the ears for hanging and carrying.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia
label: place made
content: United States: Maryland
label: place collected; place used
content: United States: Maryland
label: place collected; place used
content: United States: Virginia
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 Ferdinand Beckert
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.64.0108
label: catalog number
content: 64.0108
label: accession number
content: 251851
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pot
label: Object Name
content: pothook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (pot material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (tongs material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 18 1/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 46.355 cm