Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1818-1853
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned, conical coffeepot on flared foot with a domed, hinged lid topped by small brass button knop and a crooked gooseneck spout opposite a reinforced, tapered strap handle with small arched thumbpiece. Wire-rimmed body has an added triangular piece below its vertical folded seam and one hole at spout. Painted decoration features three orange-red and medium yellow stylized flowers overpainted with alizarin and separated by palmate green leaves; all detailed in black and set against an underlying, semitransparent white circle bordered by yellow brushwork. A yellow band with black overstrokes circles rim. Yellow brushwork around foot and on lid, including eight petals or rays encircling the knop. "1891" is scratched through paint on underside; "Oct. 1891" and other indecipherable writing possibly scratched in paint near edge of base.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Pennsylvania 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: DL.322631.0004
label: catalog number
content: 322631.0004
label: accession number
content: 322631
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 11/16 in x 10 3/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 27.14625 cm x 26.3525 cm x 16.1925 cm