Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1858
label: presentation date
content: 1858-10-27
name: label: referenced
content: Howard, Joanna Louise Turpin
notes: label: Description
content: Circular urn-shape teapot with incurved neck and double-flared hinged lid topped by an urn finial on a flared, circular pedestal with stepped, domed foot; engraved in script on one side of body "Mrs. Joanna L. Howard / From a Friend / Oct. 27\th 1858." Greek key band at shoulder and beading at neck, shoulder, top of pedestal and edge of foot. Sprigged S-curve spout with scalloped base. Sprigged and tapered S-curve handle with raised bands at ends, the lower end attached to body by a stepped oval plate. Body perforated at spout. No marks.
label: Description
content: Part of a six-piece coffee and tea service, 2013.0193.01-.06, given to Joanna Louise (Turpin) Howard (1825-1872) of Boston. The Howards were among several socially prominent free black families living in the city's affluent West End in the 1850s. Although the reasons for this splendid gift from a mystery “Friend” are unknown, Mrs. Howard and her husband, Edward Frederick Howard (1813-1893), were active in the antislavery movement and fought to end segregation of Massachusetts public schools in 1855. Their two daughters, Adeline (b. 1845) and Joan Imogene (b. 1850), became distinguished educators, while their son, Edwin Clarence (1846-1912), was the first African-American graduate of Harvard Medical School.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: abolitionism
label: Subject
content: African American
label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: Presentation
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Abolitionist Tea Service
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0193.03
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0193.03
label: accession number
content: 2013.0193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silverplate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 9 in; 26.67 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: base: 3 3/4 in; 9.525 cm