Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830 - 1837
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, compressed globular coffeepot with equal-height, incurved neck and pedestal base and creased, tapered shoulder and underbelly. Wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid is topped by wood button knop. Black-japanned, spurred, S- and C-curve handle is pinned into leafy spiral sockets. S-scroll spout has angled D-shaped lip, flat face and rounded belly. Underside of flat bottom is struck "[J.] DANFO[RTH]" in rectangle and "N\o. 15" in sawtooth rectangle, both in roman letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Josiah Danforth (1803-1872) of Middletown, CT; working 1821-circa 1843.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
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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 Gertrude D. Webster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.391780
label: catalog number
content: 391780
label: accession number
content: 71679
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (knop material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (handle finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 11 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.0825 cm x 28.8925 cm x 16.51 cm