Mug
date: label: date made
content: ca 1785
notes: label: Description
content: Oversized, raised bulbous or bellied cann or mug engraved "JNB" on front in conjoined foliate script. Applied molded rim, rounded bottom, and cast stepped circular foot. Hollow, double C-scroll handle has a scrolled acanthus leaf on top, an upper terminal with conical strut at rim and a lower termin with flared strut and oval attachment. Struck once to left of handle below rim on exterior "W•H" in raised serif letters in a rounded-corner rectangle. No centerpoint.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Homes Jr. (1742-1823) of Boston, MA; Homes Jr. apprenticed with his father, William Homes Sr., and became proprietor of his shop on Ann St. in 1763. Homes Sr. was the nephew of Benjamin Franklin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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.383523
label: catalog number
content: 383523
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 15.5575 cm x 14.2875 cm x 9.525 cm