Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1818 - 1853
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned conical coffeepot with low-domed, hinged lid topped by a small tight scroll at front. Tapered D- or ear-shaped strap handle is opposite of the straight, tapered, soft-soldered lapped-seam spout; flat bottom with projecting, folded edge. Wire-rimmed body has a grooved band near top, an added triangular piece below its vertical folded seam, and is perforated at spout. Later, darkened varnish obscures painted decoration, which features overlapping fruit and flower motifs, several shaded or fingered-off; all detailed in black and set against an underlying, semitransparent white circle. Yellow brushwork borders rim and covers lid. No marks.
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: Gift of Mrs. John H. Murray
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1227.02
label: accession number
content: 1977.1227
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1227.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 9 1/8 in x 6 in; 22.86 cm x 23.1775 cm x 15.24 cm