Canister
date: label: date made
content: ca 1814 - 1870
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned, conical- or steeple-top canister with friction-fit, low-domed cover; painted "Spice" in yellow cursive script on its shoulder above three, oval, red buds shaded with white and alizarin overstrokes and crosshatched in yellow, all on short red stems above green serrated-edge leaves with white main veins and yellow side veins. Three yellow brushstroke groups around base of shoulder and one on cover. Canister is made in four pieces: collar has a soft-soldered lapped seam, conical shoulder and cylindrical body have folded vertical seams, and the flat bottom has a folded edge. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the New York Filley Tinshop, started by Augustus Filley (1789-1945), of Lansingburgh, NY, circa 1814-1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Lansingburgh
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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: 1978.0119.33
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.33
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 3 3/16 in; 20.6375 cm x 8.09625 cm