Object Details
- Description
- Raised circular urn-shape teapot with double-flared or -trumpeted, hinged lid topped by a large cast ball on a flared circular pedestal atop a square base with applied sides; one side of body is engraved with a large shaded foliate script "G". Beading at edges of lid, base of almost flat, incurved neck, top and bottom of pedestal, face and back of the S-curve spout and at tops of the cylindrical sockets, into which is pinned a C-curve handle with scrolled waterleaf. Body perforated at spout. Outside of base opposite monogram is struck "I•M\c/.Mullin" in raised italic roman letters in a rectangle. Inside of lid incised "oz / 22= dwt / 13". No marks on underside. Part of a six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*037807-DL*037812.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Harriet A. Keen
- ca 1797
- ID Number
- DL.037809
- catalog number
- 037809
- accession number
- 117389
- Object Name
- Tea Pot
- teapot
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- wood (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 7/8 in x 10 in x 4 3/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 25.4 cm x 11.1125 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- place used
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_300713
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-e492-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
