Mustard Pot
date: label: date made
content: 1786
notes: label: Description
content: One-handled, cylindrical mustard pot on four cast claw-and-ball feet with a rosette-patterned hinged lid cut topped by a leafy pinecone or berry finial and having a utensil cutout; clear, cobalt blue glass liner. Slotted ear-shaped handle with square thumbrest. Bowknot with plain or empty pendant oval reserve on front of body. Flat frame on bottom. Inside of lid and bottom underside are struck with three hallmarks (those on bottom partial), two interlaced L's, a maker's mark including the initials "NN", and an imperial crown marked "86" above the script letter "P"; a small pitcher or ewer is stamped on the front edge of the lid exterior and overstruck on the interlaced L's on bottom underside.
label: Description
content: Maker is Noel Nousecourt of Paris, France; working circa 1783-1793.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Wrentham
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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 Miss Anna Cornette Brastow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2215
label: catalog number
content: 60.2215
label: accession number
content: 131186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pot, mustard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (insert or liner material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm