Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830
notes: label: Description
content: Large, baluster-shaped pitcher on domed foot with bulbous body seamed near middle and tall, raised incurved neck flaring to a curved rim with wide pouring lip; cast gadrooning applied at rim and ribbing at foot. Armorial engraving on one side of body consists of the coronet of a Spanish marquess above a quartered coat of arms on an oval escutcheon. Cast, hollow, double C-curve handle with acanthus upper terminal and engraved acanthus below. Underside of rounded bottom is struck twice with two marks around centerpunch: "H.I.PEPPER" in raised serif letters in a rectangle stamped on opposite sides facing inwards, and "PHILAD\A" in raised serif letters in a serrated rectangle on the other two sides facing inward; "53/1" scratched below one of the maker's marks. Part of set, DL*59.2201A-B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place used
content: Puerto Rico
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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.59.2201B
label: catalog number
content: 59.2201B
label: accession number
content: 70138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 10 5/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 26.9875 cm x 16.51 cm