Beaker
date: label: date made
content: 1816 - ca 1833
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with straight tapered sides, applied beaded rim and triple-reeded, molded foot ring; flat bottom set in. Engraved on exterior with monogram "JA" in foliate script. Bottom underside struck once below centerpoint "GELSTON" in raised serif letters inside a rectangle and with two pseudo-hallmarks, the profile head of a man facing right and a spreadwing eagle, its body facing left and head facing right, both in ovals.
label: Description
content: Maker is Hugh Gelston (1794-1873); worked in Boston, MA, and Baltimore, MD, in partnerships and alone, 1816-circa 1833.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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 Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383516
label: catalog number
content: 383516
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 8.255 cm