Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1848
label: engraved dates
content: 1848 - 1923
notes: label: Description
content: Double-bellied or inverted pear-shaped teapot with overall, elaborate repousse work, including a fanciful landscape of oriental-style buildings and shaggy trees on its upper body, and large-petaled flowers and serrated leaves across the remaining space as well as on the flared, hinged lid topped by a cast reclining stag, S-curve spout with leaf on upper lip, S-curve handle pinned into ivory insulators and voluted sockets, and domed circular foot. An armorial device consisting of a griffin's head erased rising from a heraldic wreath is engraved between structures on one side of body, and "Georgiana Armistead to Margaret Armistead Appleton from Mother to Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter / 1848-1923" is inscribed around cover edge. Chased vermicelli or squiggle pattern on collar. Body perforated at spout. Rounded underside of body is struck "14.OZ" and "S. KIRK & SON", both in raised serif letters in rectangles. No centerpunch.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: Women
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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 Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter, in memory of her mother Margaret Armistead Appleton Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.058858
label: catalog number
content: 58858
label: accession number
content: 209041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 20.6375 cm x 21.59 cm x 11.43 cm