Coffee or Tea Canister
date: label: date made
content: 1850 - 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Green-painted and gilt-stenciled, conical- or steeple-top canister with friction-fit, flat cover; one pound size. Decoration includes a lyre flanked by scrolls on the body and a flower on the cover. Canister is made in four pieces, the collar has a soft-soldered lapped seam, conical shoulder and cylinder have vertical folded seams, and flat bottom is folded onto sides. Cover top is folded with a bead over the soft-soldered side. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0009
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0009
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 20.955 cm x 11.1125 cm