Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1828-1853
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, bowl-shaped teapot with wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid topped by a small button knop. Deeply incurved neck with stepped ogee-domed shoulder; smaller incurved pedestal base with with stepped ogee-domed circular foot. Black-japanned, spurred S- and C-curve handle is pinned into cylindrical sockets. S-curve spout has triangular lip, faceted face, and creased belly. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom struck with an incuse roman "X", "BOARDMAN / & HART" above "N YORK", both in raised roman letters in rectangles, and an incuse "N\o. 5".
label: Description
content: Maker is Boardman & Hart, New York, NY, working 1828-1853. The Boardmans were a well-known family of pewtersmiths in Connecticut during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lucius Hart (1803-1871) apprenticed with Thomas Danforth Boardman (1784-1873) and was his partner in the New York branch of the business. Boardman & Hart manufactured pewter but, over time, produced less of it in favor of Britannia and block tin, which could be silver plated. (For a similar teapot in pewter marked "N\o. 4", see 1981.0081.01.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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. Alma R. Duckworth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300859.0030
label: catalog number
content: 300859.0030
label: accession number
content: 300859
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (handle finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 10 in x 5 7/8 in; 18.415 cm x 25.4 cm x 14.9225 cm