Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1736-1784
notes: label: Description
content: Pear-shaped or "Queen Anne" teapot on three cast hoof feet, its body engraved with a pseudo-armorial device consisting of the serif letters "A K" inside a crowned, clipped-corner, pointed bottom shield surmounted by a standing bird facing left and flanked by wrigglework flowers; serif letters "D B" lightly engraved at upper left and right. Low-domed, hinged lid topped by spool-shaped knop; spurred, wooden bracket handle pinned into conical sockets; and plain, S-scroll spout with flat, oval lip. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom is stamped with a crowned "X" above maker's touch mark.
label: Description
content: Maker is Frances Piggot of London, England; working 1736-1784.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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. Anne P. Robeson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.71.0048
label: catalog number
content: 71.0048
label: accession number
content: 292444
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 15.5575 cm x 18.0975 cm x 10.795 cm