Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1879
notes: label: Description
content: Bulbous or pot-bellied fluted pitcher on molded base with an S-curved, molded rim covered by a conforming, hinged lid notched at spout. High, S-scroll handle has spurred thumb piece, acanthus-leaf decoration and scrolled terminals, the upper attached to a cluster of leaves and the lower to grapes and leaves. Underside of slightly convex bottom is struck "JAMES DIXON & SONS / SHEFFIELD" in incuse serif letters and stamped with four additional maker's and pattern marks.
label: Description
content: Maker is James Dixon & Sons of Sheffield, England, ca. 1835-1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
setName: label: See more items in
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.311708
label: catalog number
content: 311708
label: accession number
content: 64443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in x 6 in; 24.13 cm x 18.0975 cm x 15.24 cm