teapot
date: label: date made
content: c. 1855-1860
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Raised bulbous baluster-shaped teapot with overall chased and repousse grapevine decoration on four cast feet of looped branches of blooming flowers. Double-domed, hinged lid is topped by a cast cluster of grapes on looped stem. Band of angular twisted branches at rim. High-loop C-curve handle and S-curve spout also cast as branches or woody trunks wrapped with budding and blooming floral vines; handle is pinned into ivory insulators. Body perforated at spout. Underside of rounded bottom struck above and below centerpoint with Gorham trademark of a lion passant facing left, an anchor, and the raised roman letter "G", all in clipped-corner surrounds, and "COIN" in incuse roman letters; "31/7" and three lines of geometric shapes are faintly scratched above and to right. Clean interior. From a six-piece coffee and tea service, 1988.0569.01-.06.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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 Carleton C. and Imogene C. Brower
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0569.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0569
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0569.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0569.01-06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 6 in; 25.0825 cm x 23.495 cm x 15.24 cm