Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1828-1853
notes: label: Description
content: Compressed globular teapot with flared and scored circular collar and base. Inset, wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid is topped by small conical knop. Spurred, S-curve handle has cylindrical sockets; plain S-curve spout has flat top face and damaged lower lip. Body incised with two pairs of lines near middle and perforated at spout. Underside of slightly inset, flat bottom struck with touch mark of "BOARDMAN / & HART" above "N YORK", all in raised roman letters in rectangles, and "N\o. 4" in incuse roman letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Boardman & Hart, New York, NY, working 1828-1853. The Boardmans were a well-known family of pewtersmiths in Connecticut during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lucius Hart (1803-1871) apprenticed with Thomas Danforth Boardman (1784-1873) and was his partner in the New York branch of the business. Boardman & Hart manufactured pewter but, over time, produced less of it in favor of Britannia and block tin, which could be silver plated. (For a similar teapot in silver plate, marked "N\o. 5", see DL*300859.30.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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 Sally L. Bristol and Nancy G. Cook in memory of Frances Carpenter Cook
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0081.01
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0081.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 23.8125 cm x 14.9225 cm