Object Details
- Description
- Rectangular, seamed teapot with raised-panel, bulging sides and a flared, rectangular, hinged lid topped by cast acorn on four ball feet. Body is engraved "DFB" in conjoined foliate script and has die-rolled bands of eight-petaled flowers and snowflake motifs at top and bottom of its flared shoulder and a narrower band of leaves at its base. Spurred, right-angled, C-curve handle, rectangular in section, has ribbed fruitwood insulators. Bellied S-curve spout, also rectangular in section, has a curvilinear upper lip. Underside is struck twice "P.GARRETT" in raised serif letters in a rectangle and incised "$62.40" and "oz 26 dwt 7". No centerpoint. From a three-piece tea service, DL*303918.0001-.0002.
- Maker is Phillip (or Philip) Garrett (1780-1851) of Philadelphia, PA; worked alone, 1801-1828, and in partnership with his son Thomas Cresson Garrett (1805-1888) from 1828 to 1835.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Estate of Elizabeth Bunnell
- 1815 - 1825
- ID Number
- DL.303918.0001
- catalog number
- 303918.0001
- accession number
- 303918
- Object Name
- teapot
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- wood (insulators material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 5/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 19.3675 cm x 26.67 cm x 12.065 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_300717
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-ebc5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
