Hot Water Pot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1797
notes: label: Description
content: Large, raised circular urn-shape pot with triple-flared or -trumpeted, hinged lid topped by a large cast ball on a flared circular pedestal atop a square base with applied sides; one side of body is engraved with a large shaded foliate script "G". Beading at edges of lid, base of tall, incurved neck, top and bottom of pedestal, face and back of the S-curve spout and at tops of the cylindrical sockets, into which is pinned a C-curve handle with scrolled waterleaf. Body has one large diamond- or lozenge-shape opening at spout. Pedestal underside is incised "oz / 42 dwt / 5"; base underside is struck four times "WILLIAMSON" in raised roman letters in a rectangle. Centerpunch on underside of body. Part of a six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*037807-DL*037812.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place used
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Miss Harriet A. Keen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.037807
label: catalog number
content: 037807
label: accession number
content: 117389
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hot Water Pot
label: Object Name
content: pot, hot water
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 36.5125 cm x 29.845 cm x 13.97 cm