Object Details
- Description
- Raised bulbous baluster-shaped teapot with overall chased and repousse grapevine decoration on four cast feet of looped branches of blooming flowers. Double-domed, hinged lid is topped by a cast cluster of grapes on looped stem. Band of angular twisted branches at rim. High-loop C-curve handle and S-curve spout also cast as branches or woody trunks wrapped with budding and blooming floral vines; handle is pinned into ivory insulators. Body perforated at spout. Underside of rounded bottom struck above and below centerpoint with Gorham trademark of a lion passant facing left, an anchor, and the raised roman letter "G", all in clipped-corner surrounds, and "COIN" in incuse roman letters; "31/7" and three lines of geometric shapes are faintly scratched above and to right. Clean interior. From a six-piece coffee and tea service, 1988.0569.01-.06.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Gorham Manufacturing Company
- date made
- c. 1855-1860
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carleton C. and Imogene C. Brower
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 7/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 6 in; 25.0825 cm x 23.495 cm x 15.24 cm
- Object Name
- teapot
