Teapot
date: label: date made
content: 1828
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, shallow double-bellied circular teapot with domed, hinged lid topped by a cast swan, its head down and wings outstretched, on a flared pedestal of overlapping waterleaves or acanthus atop a flat circular base. Four, freestanding, upward-curved lobes are mounted to the high C-loop cylindrical handle, which is pinned into ivory insulators and flared circular ruffled sockets, while a cast sea creature rides the short, acanthus-covered, bellied spout. Chased and repousse clusters of fruit and flowers encircle the flat shoulder and neoclassical arabesques with birds and swans separated by circular masks are around upper body. Cover is engraved in front of swan with the McKim crest above the gothic or Old English letters "H M\c K". Outside of base struck with maker's mark and Baltimore Assay Office hallmarks. Centerpunch on underside of body. From tea and coffee service, DL*382527-DL*382529.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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. William Duncan McKim
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.382529
label: catalog number
content: 382529
label: accession number
content: 161740
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teapot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 12 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in; 25.0825 cm x 31.115 cm x 18.0975 cm