Molasses Cup
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800-1846
notes: label: Description
content: Small, japanned, conical pitcher with an inset, V-shaped spout covered by a rounded, hinged lid connected to the tapered strap handle by a long triangular arm ending in a tiny scroll. Handle is soft-soldered to body at rim and vertical folded seam; flat bottom with folded edge. Later varnish or coating obscures decoration, which features a large, circular red flower below the spout flanked by two smaller buds, all three accented with curved, candy-striped white and alizarin overtones and surrounded by opposing groups of green and yellow leaflets. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the Connecticut Filley Tinshop of Bloomfield, CT, circa 1800-1846.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bloomfield
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0003
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0003
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher, molasses
label: Object Name
content: cup, molasses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 4 11/16 in x 3 in; 11.1125 cm x 11.90625 cm x 7.62 cm