Caster
date: label: date made
content: 1840 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Mallet-shaped caster with projecting, rounded bottom edge and screwed-on, tall, cylindrical, perforated cover having an acorn finial, six columns of five pierced holes, and creased, faceted band at rim. Conforming, glazed white earthenware cup inserted in tapered conical lower half; underside is covered by a slightly convex metal disk and bottom edges of body folded under to hold in place. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gertrude D. Webster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.391782B
label: catalog number
content: 391782B
label: accession number
content: 71679
objectType: label: Object Name
content: caster
label: Object Type
content: Shaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: earthenware, lead-glazed (pearlware) (insert material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 in; 11.43 cm x 5.08 cm