Creamer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1853
label: date made
content: ca 1853 - 1857
name: label: maker; retailer
content: Bailey and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Chinoiserie and floral repousse chased, raised globular creamer on a double-domed, circular pedestal foot with flared, hinged lid having a downturned, scalloped edge and kneeling Oriental man holding fan in left hand for finial. Continuous landscape design around body depicts on one side a pavilion behind fence and pagoda at river's edge with additional buildings on opposite shore and sampan at left; opposite side has large pine and coconut trees bending over a bridge to form empty reserve at center; no figures. C-curve handle is composed of overlapping leaves with flared leaves at bases. Stubby, wide, S-curve spout is covered with acanthus and overlapping ruffled shells.
label: Description
content: Rounded underside is struck above and below centerpunch "BAILEY & CO." and "PHILADA." in raised roman letters in rectangles, with "15398" scratched directly above marks and "#135" to left.
label: Description
content: Part of six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*276317.0001-.0006.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place owned
content: United States: Maryland, Chevy Chase
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: decorative motif
content: Chinese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marion Leigh Wells
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.276317.0004
label: catalog number
content: 276317.0004
label: accession number
content: 276317
label: catalog number
content: 276317.1-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: creamer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 4 5/8 in; 16.51 cm x 19.685 cm x 11.7475 cm