Tilting Kettle and Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1914
label: date presented
content: 1914-02-22
notes: label: Description
content: Urn-shaped, tilting kettle, oval in section, on a flared oval pedestal base with hinged, hollow handle and swing-up, trumpet-shaped, oval lid topped by a cast urn; one side of body is engraved with a shaded, foliate script "R". Pairs of button knobs on both sides fit into two fishtail- or hourglass-shaped supports mounted to a flared oval stand that holds a removable, dome-shouldered spirit burner with long-handled, circular, flat top. Cast, serpentine-lobed bands at kettle rim and stand edge have leafy volutes springing from shells; chased and engraved pairs of leafy scrolls enclosing five-petaled flowers encircle incurved neck, body, base and stand. Thin, reeded ivory insulators. Body perforated at shallow S-curve spout. Undersides of kettle and stand are both struck incuse "STERLING" at one end, "3998/74" at the other, and with a diamond-quatrefoil-diamond motif along one side; burner underside stamped "STERLING". From a seven-piece coffee and tea service, 1991.0352.01-.07.
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: New York, Yonkers
label: place used
content: United States: New York, Pelham
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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 Nancy Rowan Hutchinson and John L. and Marguerite W. Rowan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0352.03
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0352.03
label: accession number
content: 1991.0352
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0352.01-07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: burner
label: Object Name
content: stand, kettle
label: Object Name
content: kettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 33.655 cm x 29.21 cm x 18.415 cm