Beaker
date: label: date made
content: 1857
label: presentation date
content: ca 1860
name: label: owner; user
content: Bellamy, Ellen Washington
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with Rococo-style, bright-cut and engine-turned engraving on its straight tapered sides; decoration includes two scrolled reserves, one engraved "E.C.W." in script, separated by two panels with floral pendants at top. Applied molded rim and foot ring, both with beading; flat bottom set in. Bottom underside struck once with a vertically-oriented mark of "T / E / & / Co" over a circle and a diamond or lozenge containing "1 / 5 7 / 8"; "11" stamped sideways at right. One of two monogrammed beakers by the same maker in two similar patterns, DL*60.0989 and DL*60.1060.
label: Description
content: Maker is Theodore Evans and Company of New York, NY, circa 1855-1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Georgia, Macon
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. E. W. Bellamy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1060
label: catalog number
content: 60.1060
label: accession number
content: 71656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 8.255 cm x 7.3025 cm