Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1804-1808
notes: label: Description
content: Pear-shaped or "Queen Anne" teapot on short foot ring with tall, bell-domed, hinged lid topped by wood button knop; upper part of hinge is a flat, rectangular block. Spurred, S-curve handle has cylindrical sockets; faceted, S-scroll spout has flat, horizontal oval lip. Lid decorated with three sets of scored lines and roulette work at edge. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom struck with an incuse "X" above maker's touch mark; inside has spiral turning mark and possibly an effaced touch at center.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Danforth Boardman (1784-1873) of Litchfield and Hartford, CT; working, 1804-circa 1860.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.47
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.47
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (knop button material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 18.415 cm x 21.59 cm x 12.065 cm