Tea Canister
date: label: date made
content: ca 1818 - 1853
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned, oval tea canister with friction-fit, flat cover. Canister front is painted with a left-facing flower shaded or fingered-off in white, red, and yellow with black details on a slender, red-dotted yellow stem with yellow-veined green leaves and green and yellow leaflets; three small red-dotted white buds above. Yellow brushstroke groups on shoulder and cover. Canister is made in four pieces: collar has a soft-soldered lapped seam, body has one vertical folded seam, and the slightly rounded shoulder and flat bottom have folded edges. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Harvey Filley Tinshop of Philadelphia, PA, circa 1818-1853.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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: 1978.0119.34
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.34
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister
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: 5 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 8.5725 cm x 6.985 cm