Object Details
- Description
- Tapered cylindrical, handleless pot with wide, everted, single-reeded rim on an applied, molded foot ring; made to be placed in a commode chair or stool. Sets of three and two incised lines around exterior. Bottom underside is engraved with a wrigglework semicircle containing "Abram Tuckerman" in script above "BOSTON" in shaded Roman letters and a shaded "I" or the Roman numeral "II" beneath the semicircle. No marks apparent.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- 1770 - 1800
- ID Number
- DL.388641
- catalog number
- 388641
- accession number
- 182022
- Object Name
- pan, close stool
- pot, commode
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 18.415 cm x 29.845 cm
- rim width: 1 3/4 in; 4.445 cm
- base diameter: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England
- place used
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Household Tools and Equipment
- Personal Accessories
- Personal Hygiene
- Record ID
- nmah_300623
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-0e07-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
