Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Squat, pear-shaped teapot with a shallow conical, inset, hinged lid topped by a cast leafy ball, and an S-curve spout and hollow, high D- or ear-shaped handle, both decorated with acanthus leaves and graduated beads or pearls. Body has a flat band at seam around belly; eight-lobed upper section and stepped, flat-bottomed lower section. Body is finely perforated at spout. Bottom underside is struck incuse "THE MIDDLETOWN PLATE CO." arched over cross-topped scales and "U.S.A."; incuse number "43" is below.
label: Description
content: Maker is Middletown Plate Co. of Middletown, CT. Middletown Plate Co. was founded in 1864 and became a subsidiary of International Silver Co. in 1898; International continued to use the Middletown name and mark until at least 1921.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0918.69
label: accession number
content: 1977.0918
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0918.69
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 6 in; 15.875 cm x 21.59 cm x 15.24 cm