Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: 1838 - 1841
name: label: owner; user
content: Washington, Mary Anne Hammond
notes: label: Description
content: High-shouldered, turnip-shaped pitcher on a flared and ogee-domed, circular pedestal base, engraved "H" in flecked script to right of center on front of its conical body. Incurved neck flares to a reverse-cyma rim with wide V-shaped pouring lip. Beading applied at rim, base of neck, top of pedestal, and bottom of foot; fine diagonal serrations around bottom edge of pedestal. Hollow S-curve handle has raised beads near upper and lower terminals. Underside of rounded bottom struck with pseudo hallmarks of a spreadwing eagle and left-facing sovereign's head in profile, both in circles, flanking the centerpunch, and with "VEAL & GLAZE" in raised serif letters in a serrated rectangle overstruck on a smaller rectangular mark above and below.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: South Carolina, Columbia
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Georgia, Macon
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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. Ellen Washington Bellamy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.0995
label: catalog number
content: 60.0995
label: accession number
content: 71656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in; 18.415 cm x 19.05 cm x 10.4775 cm