Teapot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870 - 1880
label: date made
content: ca 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Round-bottom, flared or trumpet-shape teapot with curved, ruffled-base spout on four, square-section, incurved legs, reeded on their fronts and attached to body by masks of a bearded man; domed, hinged lid is topped by a cast knop of an upright spiraling horn and seahorse. Both sides of body are flat chased with tall trapezoidal reserves flanked by compound leaves and spiral scrolls with pendant anchors. Hollow, U-curve handle with pendant cube-and-ball upper terminal connects to perforated insulators attached to a flared papyrus-form upper socket and shell-and-drop lower terminal. Body perforated at spout. Underside of slightly convex bottom is struck incuse "5", "930", "TAUNTON. / SILVER PLATE Co." and "TRIPLE PLATE.", all in serif letters. From a 5-piece coffee and tea service, DL*209041.0001-.0005.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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 Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter, in memory of her mother Margaret Armistead Appleton Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.209041.0005
label: catalog number
content: 209041.0005
label: accession number
content: 209041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 7 in x 5 5/8 in; 26.9875 cm x 17.78 cm x 14.2875 cm