Tea Canister
date: label: date made
content: 1815 - 1830
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned oval tea canister or caddy with rounded shoulder and friction-fit, rounded-top, circular cover. Fragmentary asymmetrical floral sprays on both sides of body feature two salmon-red, open-center buds, that at left with red crosshatching at center and that at right empty, amidst leaflets in two colors (probably yellow and green); otherwise, decoration is gone. Cover and container have soft-soldered lapped seams, while cover top, shoulder and flat container bottom have folded edges. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut
label: place made
content: United States: New York
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Norwood
topic: label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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 Mrs. H. B. (Clara Babcock) Blackmar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2228
label: catalog number
content: 59.2228
label: accession number
content: 220211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister, tea
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, tinned sheet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 5 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.97 cm x 12.7 cm x 8.5725 cm