Cream Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1825
notes: label: Description
content: Oblong, boat-shaped creamer with repoussé chased bands of roses, C scrolls, thistles and clover or shamrocks on an oval foot ring with four cast shell feet. Wide pouring lip and tapered S scroll handle with anthemion decoration. Underside of bowl struck incuse "DIXON & SON" in serif letters; underside of one foot stamped "76". From a four-piece coffee and tea service, DL*393313A-D.
label: Description
content: Maker is James Dixon & Son of Sheffield, England, circa 1823-1835. Started as Dixon & Smith (James Dixon and Thomas Smith) in 1806, succeeded by James Dixon & Son in circa 1823 when James's eldest son, William Frederick Dixon, became his partner; renamed James Dixon & Sons when another son, James Willis Dixon, joined business around 1835 (a third son and son-in-law entered partnership around time when James Dixon, Sr. retired in 1842). Became James Dixon & Sons Ltd. in 1920 and has undergone several additional changes in owner and name since 1930. Company was a major manufacturer of Britannia and, later, silver and plated wares.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: place used
content: United States: New York, Marcellus
label: used
content: United States: New York, Marcellus
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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 Miss Mary E. Stocking
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.393313D
label: catalog number
content: 393313D
label: accession number
content: 208876
objectType: label: Object Name
content: creamer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 8.89 cm x 15.875 cm x 7.9375 cm