Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1895
notes: label: Description
content: Tall, tapered hexagonal or six panel-sided pitcher with a tall, bracket-top, shallow C-curve handle and applied, U-shaped, curved spout with circular opening; body cut out at spout. Panels have identical stamped decoration of plumed scrolls and flowers. Flat bottom with rounded edge is struck incuse on its underside with a concentric circular maker's mark of "FORBES SILVER CO. U.S.A. / [QUADRUPLE]" around an eagle's head erased facing right, and "421" below. Rim repaired; appears to have originally had a hinged lid. Plating failing in areas. Dark coating on interior.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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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. Paul Lyon Reed
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.65.1560
label: catalog number
content: 65.1560
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 20.955 cm x 14.9225 cm x 11.1125 cm