Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1894 - 1908
notes: label: Description
content: Floral repousse-decorated, squat baluster-shape teapot with flared, hinged lid topped by a cast mushroom-and-ball knop, an S-curve spout with split lip, and C-curve handle pinned into ivory insulators. A ruffled or pleated band is around lid and spout attachment, and long anthemion leaves are along spout and handle back. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom is engraved "JBW" in conjoined, shaded foliate script and struck with a small tower above "JACOBI & JENKINS / MAKERS / BALTIMORE" and "STERLING 9[25/]1[000] FINE". No centerpunch.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: place used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of August Mencken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0459
label: catalog number
content: 68.0459
label: accession number
content: 274913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in x 4 in; 11.43 cm x 18.0975 cm x 10.16 cm