Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1821-ca 1843
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, compressed globular teapot with equal-height, incurved neck and pedestal base and creased, tapered shoulder and underbelly. Wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid is topped by button knop. Spurred, S- and C-curve handle is pinned into leafy spiral-scroll sockets. S-curve spout has angled D-shaped lip, flat face and rounded belly. Body has a finely turned, tinned interior and is perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom struck "[J.] DANFORTH" in rectangle and "N\o. 14" in sawtooth rectangle, both in roman letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Josiah Danforth (1803-1872) of Middletown, CT; working, 1821-circa 1843. Mold appears identical to that used for teapot DL*59.0608 by J. D. Locke of New York, NY, 1835-1860.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Alma R. Duckworth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300859.0031
label: catalog number
content: 300859.0031
label: accession number
content: 300859
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 9 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 21.2725 cm x 24.765 cm x 13.97 cm