Creamer
date: label: date made
content: 1906
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, spiral-lobed, pear-shaped cream pitcher with Chinoiserie decoration, including a cast and applied S-curve dragon handle and ten chased and repousse panels on body depicting bamboo, peonies, flowering prunus branches and dragons, all on a finely-textured ground; Oriental scenes on two side panels feature a man travelling by donkey opposite a scholar and servant fishing. Floral-decorated inset spout has flared lip. Slightly concave bottom is struck on underside with two marks, "TC" and a Chinese ideogram, both in rounded rectangles. Part of a four-piece service (kettle, stand and burner counted as one piece), DL*62.0334A-D.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Shanghai, Shanghai
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: China Trade
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: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wallace Dunn, Jr., in memory of Lillian Lash and Arthur Wallace Dunn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0334C
label: catalog number
content: 62.0334C
label: accession number
content: 241778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: creamer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 12.3825 cm x 13.6525 cm x 9.525 cm