Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1809-1836
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, oblong, boat-shaped teapot on four ball feet with flat, rectangular hinged lid domed at center and topped by a rectangular rosette knop. Spurred, C-shape wood handle is pinned into cylindrical sockets. Bellied gooseneck or S-curve spout with elongated D-shaped lip and flat inside face. Body perforated at spout. Underside of slightly raised bottom struck incuse "I.VICKERS" between "B 4" and "586".
label: Description
content: Maker is John Vickers of Sheffield, England; working, 1809-1836. His father, James Vickers (1737-1809), is said to have discovered and was the first to produce Britannia ware in 1769 or 1770, establishing Sheffield as major manufacturing center in the trade.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.311701
label: catalog number
content: 311701
label: accession number
content: 64443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 11 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 28.2575 cm x 9.525 cm