Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: 1880 - 1890
name: label: maker
content: Simpson, Hall, Miller, and Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Floral repousse pitcher with tall neck and globular body on gadrooned circular foot. Decoration features a dove or pigeon perched left on front amidst flowers and foliage, including daffodils, daisies or cosmos, dogwoods, ferns, cattails or reeds and ears of wheat. Gadrooned underbelly and hollow C curve handle, the handle alternating with leafy volutes and ending in a reeded volute for lower terminal. Cusped rim has wide, shallow pouring lip. Underside of flat bottom struck incuse with concentric circular mark of "SIMPSON.HALL.MILLER & C\o" bordering "QUADRUPLE (arched) / (upside-down "T" motif) / PLATE" above "215".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Wallingford
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Pittsfield
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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 Frances G. Thompson (Mrs. David Thompson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0338.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0338.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0338
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 7 7/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 20.32 cm x 20.0025 cm x 15.5575 cm