Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: ca 1851
name: label: maker
content: Bailey and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Small, seamed octagonal or 8-panel-sided mug on flared cylindrical base with rococo-style, repousse chased foliate decoration and die-rolled, shell-patterned bands at rim and base. Foliate and ruffled C scroll reserve opposite the spurred scroll handle bears the engraved inscription "Cassy Mason / from her / Uncle" in script; pendant tulips and scrolled foliage fill the remaining panels. Inset flat bottom is struck on underside "BAILEY & CO." and "PHILAD." both in raised serif letters in rectangles, above and below centerpunch; illegible letters scratched to left.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Cassie Mason Myers Julian-James
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.65.1426
label: catalog number
content: 65.1426
label: accession number
content: 70138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 9.525 cm x 8.255 cm