Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1810
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, rounded rectangular coffeepot with a domed and flared, hinged lid on a stepped and flared pedestal base with four ball feet. Wheelwork decoration on body includes a wide band of flowers and fruits in scrolls above a leafy oval wreath on both sides engraved "Tillson" in script; additional undulating lines on lid and shoulder, drapery on top of base, and trailing leaves on the S curve spout. Applied gadrooning at rim, shoulder, bottom edge of base, and around the cylindrical sockets, which are pinned to a spurred and angled, C curve handle. Body perforated at spout. Opposite sides of base are struck incuse "MOULTON" in serif letters, while its underside is engraved "36 15". Centerpunch on underside of body. Wooden, domed rectangular finial broken; three pieces stored inside pot.
label: Description
content: Attributed to Ebenezer Noyes Moulton (1768-1824), working in Boston, MA, circa 1789 to circa 1820, and Newburyport, circa 1820-1824. Ebenezer was from a large family of Newburyport silversmiths than spanned several generations, including his father, Joseph III (1744-1816), his grandfather William Moulton III (1720-c. 1793) and grand uncle Joseph Moulton II (1724-1795), as well as his brothers William IV (1772-1861), Enoch (1780-1820), and Abel (1784-1840), and one nephew, Joseph IV (1814-1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
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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 Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383552
label: catalog number
content: 383552
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/8 in x 12 7/8 in x 5 in; 25.7175 cm x 32.7025 cm x 12.7 cm