Object Details
- Description
- Raised circular urn-shape coffeepot 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 short, incurved neck, top and bottom of pedestal, face and back of the upright, angular bellied 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. Base underside is struck twice "WILLIAMSON" in raised roman letters in a rectangle. Centerpunch on underside of body. 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.037808
- catalog number
- 037808
- accession number
- 117389
- Object Name
- coffeepot
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- wood (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 1/8 in x 10 3/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 30.7975 cm x 26.3525 cm x 12.065 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_300712
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-200c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
