Object Details
- Description
- Raised, oblong, apple-shaped teapot with a short, forward-set, concave neck and wide, everted, single-reeded rim on an applied oval foot ring. Inset, domed and flared, hinged lid is topped by an ebony oval button knop. Single-knuckled, C-curve handle is pinned into flared sockets. Body perforated at the shallow, S-curve spout. Shoulder is struck "GEBELEIN" twice to left of handle, while underside of slightly concave bottom has four marks, "H S" separated by an anvil in a rectangle above "STERLING", "1905" and "G"; lid is also struck "GEBELEIN" at inside edge. Part of a three-piece service, 1992.0601.001-.003.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor Gebelein Greene, Ernest George Gebelein, and Athur David Gebelein, in memory of their father George Christian Gebelein; and the Mary E. Maxwell Fund
- ca 1905
- ID Number
- 1992.0601.001
- catalog number
- 1992.0601.001
- accession number
- 1992.0601
- Object Name
- teapot
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- ebony (knop, handle material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 30 cm x 14 cm x 14 cm; 11 13/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 11 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 29.845 cm x 13.97 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1126989
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-af5d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
