Mug
date: label: date made
content: 1740-1745
label: date engraved
content: 1796
notes: label: Description
content: Raised bulbous or bellied cann or mug engraved "SECOND / PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / NEWBURYPORT" on front in shaded serif letters beneath drapery swags. Plain flared rim, rounded bottom, and cast flared circular foot. Hollow, double C-scroll handle has a sprigged upper terminal and a split scroll lower terminal; both with stepped conical struts. Rim exterior struck once to left of handle "JOHN / BURT" in raised slanted serif letters in a rounded-corner rectangle. Centerpoint on bottom underside with old red-bordered white paper collection label adhered below.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Burt (1692/3-1746) of Boston, MA; father of silversmiths Samuel (1724-1754), William (1726-1751) and Benjamin (1729-1805).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383477
label: catalog number
content: 383477
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 15.5575 cm x 14.605 cm x 9.2075 cm