Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830-1840
notes: label: Description
content: Urn-shape coffeepot with an incurved neck ending in a round bead and flared shoulder atop a tapered cylindrical body on a flared, circular pedestal base. Bell-domed, hinged lid with wide, flat edge is topped by an octagonal fluted knop. Spurred C- and S-curve, D- or ear-shaped handle is pinned into cylindrical sockets. S-scroll spout has an elongated D-shaped lip, faceted face and tongued belly. Body perforated at spou. Underside of inset convex bottom is struck with five marks, including "G.RICHARDSO[N]" in raised serif letters in a finely serrated rectangle, and is scratched at lower left "i/m / u/m / v/m / v/n", possibly by different hands. Fine turning marks inside. Handle and knop with vestiges of black japanning; spout darker than body. Base edge dented.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island
label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Cranston
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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 Marie Louise Burge and Jessie Jay Burge in memory of their parents. J. H. Hobart Burge and Louise S. Burge
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1686
label: catalog number
content: 60.1686
label: accession number
content: 68968
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (body, lid, knop material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (handle, spout, knop finial material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (handle finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 22.225 cm x 11.43 cm