Melting Ladle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750
name: label: user
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: This melting ladle was owned by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th century. The lade has two pouring spouts set perpendicular to one another on the shallow circular bowl and a long, straight handle, rectangular in section, slightly shaped with a rattail hanging loop at its end. The ladle was used to transfer molten metal from its crucible to a mold.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: Subject
content: Firearms
label: Subject
content: metalworking
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Copp Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006841
label: catalog number
content: 6841
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 27 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 5.715 cm x 70.8025 cm x 14.9225 cm