Jam Pot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical, green jasperware handled and covered container encircled with applied neoclassical scenes of women and putti beneath a border of laurel leaves and berries. Container is rounded at base and fitted with a silverplated collar with bail handle around its rim. Flat circular cover with utensil cutout is decorated with scrolls, bellflowers, and a geometric border and topped by an acorn-and-button finial. Interior of pot is glazed; exterior is stamped "WEDGWOOD" (slightly curved) and inscribed "X" and "C". Cover not marked.
label: Description
content: Maker is Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent, England, founded by Josiah Wedgwood in 1759.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Stoke-on-Trent
label: place used
content: United Kingdom: England, South Tyneside, South Shields
label: place used
content: United States: Wisconsin, Menomonie
label: place used
content: United States: Minnesota, Lake Park
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John H. Crea
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.66.0548
label: catalog number
content: 66.0548
label: accession number
content: 265238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pot, jam
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (rim mount; handle; cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 4 in; 11.7475 cm x 10.16 cm