Teapot
date: label: date teapot made
content: 1772
label: date finial made
content: 1847-1848
name: label: previous owner
content: Pell, Alfred Duane
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical teapot with cast melon knop screwed to the hinged lid and a spurred, ear-shaped handle pinned into cylindrical sockets opposite a plain, bellied gooseneck or S curve spout. Body is made of three, vertically seamed pieces and engraved on one side with an indecipherable monogram and crest. Applied gadrooning around lid, outside edge of top, and at bottom as part of foot ring. Body perforated at spout. One finial leaf is struck with "RP / GB" in raised serif letters in a rounded square, a sovereign's head facing left in oval, and lion passant in shield; no date letter evident. Underside of flat bottom is struck with four hallmarks arranged in a triangle, "* / AL" in triangular surround at center, lion passant facing left in pointed-bottom shield above, crowned leopard's head in rounded shield at left, and a gothic or Old English "R" in clipped-corner, pointed-bottom shield to right. No centerpunch.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.0329
label: catalog number
content: 60.0329
label: accession number
content: 225282
label: collector/donor number
content: P-340
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (body; lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (hinge pin material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 22.5425 cm x 11.1125 cm