Creamer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1826
notes: label: Description
content: Raised circular cream pitcher with twelve-lobed bulbous lower body accented by faceted diamonds on a domed and stepped circular pedestal base; one lobe is engraved "SM" in small, fain script. Incurved neck flares to a deeply curved rim with wide pouring lip and die-rolled band of symmetrical floral decoration on exterior. Matching, cast convex rims at shoulder and top of pedestal. Hollow, reeded S-curve handle sprouts from anthemion volutes, the upper terminal with a five-petaled flower at sides. Centerpunch on underside of rounded bottom. Underside of base is struck "W. Thomson" in raised script in a stepped rectangle and scratched "13 9". From cream and sugar set, DL*62.0248-.0249.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William Elderkin Huntington
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0249
label: catalog number
content: 62.0249
label: accession number
content: 1979.0955
objectType: label: Object Name
content: creamer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 17.145 cm x 10.4775 cm