Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
name: label: maker
content: Odiot, Jean Baptiste Claude
notes: label: Description
content: Small, silver-gilt or vermeil, lidded ovoid pitcher with incurved neck and shallow curved rim on a short, flared, circular pedestal base. Applied decoration of two cast laurel wreaths and a face wearing a shell diadem and pearl or bead necklace with grapeleaves and fruit for hair on sides and front of body; die-rolled bands of pointed leaves and single buds are at base of neck, beading at top of pedestal and laurel leaves around base. Flat-chased bands of pairs of leaves encircle rim and shoulder while overlapping pointed leaves enclose bottom Conforming hinged lid is raised at pouring lip. High, spurred and tapered C-curve handle is pinned into tapered volute sockets. Three hallmarks inside lid, one below rim to left of handle, one on front of foot, and a pair on underside of base and body. Centerpunch visible.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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 Colonel William E. Shipp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0062
label: catalog number
content: 62.0062
label: accession number
content: 226997
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 23.1775 cm x 12.065 cm x 8.89 cm