Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1820 - 1825
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned conical coffeepot with a rounded, hinged lid topped by a small loop at front. Tapered D- or ear-shaped strap handle is opposite of the straight, tapered, soft-soldered lapped-seam spout; flat bottom with projecting, folded edge. Wire-rimmed body has an added triangular piece below its vertical folded seam and is perforated at spout. Painted decoration features a red, left-facing, kidney-shaped flower on curved red stem with green leaves; flower is accented by rows of yellow, alizarin and white dots above a fan of white and alizarin overtones, and is surrounded by yellow and green leaflets. Yellow and red brushwork covers lid and borders rim and base. Fine yellow strokes beneath spout. Mottled asphaltum background. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to one of the Filley Tinshops, located in Bloomfield, CT, Lansingburgh, NY, and Philadelphia, PA; with decoration painted by Edward Francis (d. 1826), who worked for the Filley family at all three shops.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bloomfield
label: place made
content: United States: New York, Lansingburgh
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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: 1978.0119.08
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
label: Other Terms
content: Coffeepot; 41Cc, Sullivan, Michael D
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 9/16 in x 8 5/8 in x 6 3/16 in; 21.74875 cm x 21.9075 cm x 15.71625 cm