Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1815 - 1825
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, seamed teapot with raised-panel, bulging sides and a flared, rectangular, hinged lid topped by cast acorn on four ball feet. Body is engraved "DFB" in conjoined foliate script and has die-rolled bands of eight-petaled flowers and snowflake motifs at top and bottom of its flared shoulder and a narrower band of leaves at its base. Spurred, right-angled, C-curve handle, rectangular in section, has ribbed fruitwood insulators. Bellied S-curve spout, also rectangular in section, has a curvilinear upper lip. Underside is struck twice "P.GARRETT" in raised serif letters in a rectangle and incised "$62.40" and "oz 26 dwt 7". No centerpoint. From a three-piece tea service, DL*303918.0001-.0002.
label: Description
content: Maker is Phillip (or Philip) Garrett (1780-1851) of Philadelphia, PA; worked alone, 1801-1828, and in partnership with his son Thomas Cresson Garrett (1805-1888) from 1828 to 1835.
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: Bequest of Estate of Elizabeth Bunnell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.303918.0001
label: catalog number
content: 303918.0001
label: accession number
content: 303918
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 5/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 19.3675 cm x 26.67 cm x 12.065 cm