Coffeepot
date: label: date made
content: 1854 - 1865
name: label: owner; user
content: Washington, Mary Anne Hammond
notes: label: Description
content: Baluster- or pear-shaped, octagonal panel-sided coffeepot with conforming, bell-shaped, hinged lid and straight tapered foot; four panels are engraved with flowers and C scrolls while the two center panels have identical reserves, one bearing the monogram "MAW" in conjoined foliate script and the other a crest of a left-facing bird atop a coronet and heraldic wreath with leaves. Spurred and faceted, S-curve handle pinned into thin insulators and conforming sockets. Faceted, S curve spout engraved on belly. Body perforated at spout. Bottom underside struck "TIFFANY & C\o." and "550 BROADWAY.N-Y" encircling "7833", "G & W" stamped twice, "ENGLISH STERLING / 925-1000", and "13", all in incuse serif letters.
label: Description
content: Made by Grosjean & Woodward for Tiffany & Company of New York, NY, 1854-1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Georgia, Macon
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Ellen Washington Bellamy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1000
label: catalog number
content: 60.1000
label: accession number
content: 71656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 23.495 cm x 13.97 cm