Hot Water Urn
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905 - 1915
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled hot water urn with double-stepped, flared cover topped by a small cast urn; domed, hollow, copper-bottom pedestal base with four, cast, C-scroll patterned, cabriole feet; applied greek-key molding at shoulder and beading on cover and at rim, shoulder, and base of body. S-curve, D- or ear-shaped handles have scrolled tips and pendant beads on top and short lower terminals with triple-stepped oval attachments. Bail spigot handle with grooved wood grip; acanthus on body at spigot base. Shallow disk fuel reservoir for removable spirit burner is stored loose inside base. No maker's marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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.289433
label: catalog number
content: 289433
label: accession number
content: 59128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: urn, hot water
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (spigot, spigot handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (spigot grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (urn bottom material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel, galvanized (alcohol reservoir material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 12 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 31.4325 cm x 21.59 cm