Pot
date: label: date made
content: early 19th century
label: date made
content: ca 1840-1860
notes: label: Description
content: Two-quart cooking pot on three, semicircular feet with a double-flared lip, bulbous body, and triangular lugs or ears; no handle. Hollow cast with three fillets around body, the lowest one is a horizontal seam; two vertical seams on upper half and single gate mark on bottom exterior. Cast-in marks inside three spaces between fillets read "N\o 1:2QTS. / SAVERY & CO. / PHILADELPHIA" on one side and an "H" on the opposite side, all in raised serif letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is iron castings manufacturer Savery & Co. of Philadelphia, PA; founded by Peleg Barrows Savery (1805-1863) in 1838 and succeeded by Barrows, Savery & Co. in 1875.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.39
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.39
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 8 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 20.955 cm x 16.51 cm