Hot Water Urn
date: label: date made
content: after 1850
label: date made
content: ca 1853 - 1857
name: label: maker; retailer
content: Bailey and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, raised bulbous baluster-shaped hot water urn with overall Chinoserie and floral repousse chased decoration on a circular stand having four S-scroll legs of overlapping shells topped by putti masks and ending in shell feet that are connected by floral garlands. Flared cover with downturned, scalloped edge features an Oriental man seated cross-legged with his left hand on left knee and right arm against body for finial; matching figure serves as grip on spigot handle. Continuous landscape design around body depicts on front two birds in flight above two men walking towards each other at river's edge framed by pavilion complexes and two inclined pines, additional juts of land with pagodas and a sampan in distance; back has large pine and coconut trees bending over bridge to form empty reserve at center. High-loop, C-curve handles of overlapping leaves are pinned into ivory insulators and have bases of flared leaves. Cast garlands on the stand hide the burner frame which holds a removable, flattened globular, screw-top double spirit burner on molded foot; wicks included. Pins on small link chains fastened to the stand fit into three- and five-knuckle hinges on front and back of urn to secure it in place or allow it to tilt.
label: Description
content: Underside of urn and burner both struck with same marks around centerpunch: an oval mark for "BAILEY & C\O/. (arched) / 136 / CHESTNUT S\T/. PHILA (curved)" in incuse roman letters below four pseudo hallmarks (spreadwing eagle clutching laurel leaves and arrows in rounded rectangle, raised roman "U" in oval, 4-pointed American shield, and left-facing saddled elephant statant in clipped-corner rectangle). Burner additionally inscribed "15398" upside down above marks. No marks on stand.
label: Description
content: Part of six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*276317.0001-.0006.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place owned
content: United States: Maryland, Chevy Chase
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: decorative motif
content: Chinese
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marion Leigh Wells
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.276317.0001
label: catalog number
content: 276317.0001
label: accession number
content: 276317
label: catalog number
content: 276317.1-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: urn, hot water
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (wicks material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 10 1/2 in; 40.005 cm x 28.8925 cm x 26.70048 cm