Flour Shaker
date: label: date made
content: ca 1820 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned shaker or dredger with friction-fit, low-domed, hand-perforated cover and circular ring strap handle attached just below the raised bead on cylindrical body. Cover is painted with a red-and-yellow pinwheel, while a band of red and yellow brushstroke swags circle the body. Cover and body both made of two pieces with soft-soldered lapped seams; top of cover and flat bottom of body are folded. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the New York Filley Tinshop, started by Augustus Filley (1789-1945), of Lansingburgh, NY, circa 1814-1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Lansingburgh
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.39
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.39
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shaker, flour
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 11/16 in; 8.89 cm x 8.5725 cm x 6.82625 cm