Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1853
label: date made
content: ca 1853 - 1857
name: label: maker; retailer
content: Bailey and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Chinoiserie and floral repousse chased, raised globular teapot on a double-domed, circular pedestal foot with flared, hinged lid having a downturned, scalloped edge and an Oriental man seated cross-legged with his left hand on left knee and right arm against body for finial. Continuous landscape design around body depicts on one side two men, one wearing a hat and the other standing behind the latticework fence of a pagoda complex, conversing at river's edge with additional pavilions amidst pine and coconut trees at left and on opposite shore and a flower-filled garden urn and sampan at right; opposite side has large pine and coconut trees bending over a bridge to form empty reserve at center. High-loop, C-curve handle composed of overlapping leaves is pinned into ivory insulators with bases of flared leaves. Short S-curve spout covered with acanthus and overlapping ruffled shells; body perforated at spout.
label: Description
content: Rounded underside is struck above and below centerpunch "BAILEY & CO." and "PHIL[AD.]" in raised roman letters in rectangles, with "15398" scratched between marks and "#135" scratched upside-down further below.
label: Description
content: Part of six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*276317.0001-.0006.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place owned
content: United States: Maryland, Chevy Chase
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: decorative motif
content: Chinese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marion Leigh Wells
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.276317.0003
label: catalog number
content: 276317.0003
label: accession number
content: 276317
label: catalog number
content: 276317.1-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tea Service, Six Piece
label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 26.035 cm x 16.1925 cm