Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1805
notes: label: Description
content: Raised oblong teapot with inset, low-domed, hinged lid on short, oval foot ring. Rounded body is topped by a flat-chased, cyma-curved band featuring anthemions or palmettes flanked by reverse scrolls connected by bud-like motifs that is joined to a flared shoulder with two zigzag lines at opening; engraved double ribbons border lid and foot. Knuckled C-curve handle is pinned into tapered rectangular sockets. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom struck with five hallmarks arranged in a diamond or lozenge shape, and with an incuse "X" and dot at handle end; two hallmarks inside front of rim. Bottom underside and lid inside are also incised with several sets of letters and numbers, including "RE" in script and weight. Used with teapot stand or tray, DL.380478.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Emes of London, England; active, 1796-1808.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Illinois, Albion
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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. Margaret Edmiston Gamon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.380477
label: catalog number
content: 380477
label: accession number
content: 153231
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 10 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 26.67 cm x 12.065 cm