Cup
date: label: date made
content: 1824-1872
notes: label: Description
content: Inverted bell-shaped, handled cup on pedestal base with pierced, circular foot. High cast scroll handle has leafy terminals and a circular flower inside top curve. Die-rolled bands of laurel leaves and hexagonal star motifs at rim and midbody, and pointed leaves and single buds around top of base. Handle struck with three marks, a crowned eagle with cross-in-oval body, "A / * * / S" in raised serif letters in a diamond or lozenge, and a bull's head, facing forward, in conforming surround. Partial maker's mark on rounded bottom inside and another bull's head on underside. Part of cup and saucer set, DL*377439A-B.
label: Description
content: Based on marks, made in Turin during the period it was part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1824-1872.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Piedmont, Turin
label: place made
content: Italy: Kingdom of Sardinia
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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 Mrs. Francis T. Redwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.377439A
label: catalog number
content: 377439A
label: accession number
content: 138933
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 11.1125 cm x 7.9375 cm