Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Baluster-shaped pitcher with high-domed, wide-rimmed, molded lid topped by button knop; hooked D- or ear-shaped strap handle; and inset, curved spout with strainer. Fillet at neck and base; molded double-bead at seam. Underside of slightly convex bottom struck with maker's circular touch mark. Brittle yellow paper tucked inside is inscribed "This pewter / pitcher was / captured on Board / The / by Forest (underlined) / in The Civil War."
label: Description
content: Maker is Isaac C. Lewis of East Meriden (Bagnall), CT (1812-1893); probably made before he became one of the founding partners of the Meriden Britannia Co. in 1852.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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 Dr. and Mrs. Athur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388369
label: catalog number
content: 388369
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 9 1/4 in x 6 in; 25.4 cm x 23.495 cm x 15.24 cm