Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1819 - 1838
name: label: maker
content: Cahier, Jean-Charles
notes: label: Description
content: Small, silver-gilt or vermeil teapot with bulbous oval body on a short, flared, oval pedestal base; flat inset top has a central circular opening notched at front and back for the twist-lock cover topped by an ebony urn. Applied decoration includes two cast circular floral wreaths on body, die-rolled bands of scroll-outlined waterleaves at neck and of pointed leaves and single buds at base, and beading at middle of pedestal and shallow S-curve spout with plain upper half and fluted lower half. High, tapered C-curve handle is pinned into two circular rosettes at top and an elongated conical socket at bottom. Brass tag stamped "3327" is wired to handle. Inside and collar of lid and exterior of foot are struck with a total of five hallmarks. Part of a five-piece service, DL*59.2346A-E.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
label: place used
content: Russia
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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 Colonel William E. Shipp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2346B
label: catalog number
content: 59.2346B
label: accession number
content: 226997
label: collector/donor number
content: 72
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (knop, handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (tag material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 17.145 cm x 8.255 cm