Milk Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1826 - 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Large, raised pear-shape cream pot on three cast C-curve legs with flat trefoil feet attached to body by shells. Chased and repousse leafy floral designs and C scrolls on body surround a peaked-top, C-scroll cartouche at front engraved "EF" in conjoined shaded foliate script. Flared curvilinear rim has wide pouring lip creased at center. Cast C- and S-curve handle has single sprig and split-scroll lower terminal. Underside of rounded body is struck with three marks around centerpunch, the raised serif letters "IS" or "SI" in a rectangle, Ceres' head facing left with "8" at lower right in a rectangle, and an illegible motif in a rectangle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Sicily, Sicily
label: place used
content: Italy
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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. Hugh E. Cailler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.63.0824
label: catalog number
content: 63.0824
label: accession number
content: 245151
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher, milk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 6 1/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 15.24 cm x 15.5575 cm x 9.8425 cm