teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1865-1870
name: label: retailer
content: Tiffany & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Spherical teapot on circular foot ring; upper half of body has a flat-chased scrollwork band with two circular reserves, one engraved with the monogram "CEE", and is joined to the plain lower half by a denticulate-patterned midband. Low-domed, hinged lid topped by a large, cast raspberry finial has a flat-chased strap- and scrollwork medallion. Hollow, C-curve handle is pinned into ivory insulators with stylized palmate or anthemion sockets. High, almost vertical, spout with abstract anthemion on its belly. Body perforated at spout. Underside of slightly convex bottom struck around centerpoint, "TIFFANY & CO." and "550 BROADWAY" encircling "1516", "QUALITY / 9[25-]1000" flanked on both sides by a gothic or Old English "M", and "2749".
label: Description
content: Made by John C. Moore & Son for Tiffany & Co., both of New York, NY; the above mark used, 1865-1870. Moore & Son (John Chandler Moore and Edward Chandler Moore) was in operation, 1849-1868; they produced exclusively for Tiffany, which purchased the company in 1868 (Edward C. Moore then became head of Tiffany's silver department, a position he held until his death in 1891.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300561
label: catalog number
content: 300561
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 5 in; 16.1925 cm x 21.59 cm x 12.7 cm