Mustard Pot

Description:

One-handled, cylindrical mustard pot on four cast claw-and-ball feet with a rosette-patterned hinged lid cut topped by a leafy pinecone or berry finial and having a utensil cutout; clear, cobalt blue glass liner. Slotted ear-shaped handle with square thumbrest. Bowknot with plain or empty pendant oval reserve on front of body. Flat frame on bottom. Inside of lid and bottom underside are struck with three hallmarks (those on bottom partial), two interlaced L's, a maker's mark including the initials "NN", and an imperial crown marked "86" above the script letter "P"; a small pitcher or ewer is stamped on the front edge of the lid exterior and overstruck on the interlaced L's on bottom underside.

Maker is Noel Nousecourt of Paris, France; working circa 1783-1793.

Date Made: 1786

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: France: Île-de-France, ParisPlace Used: United States: Massachusetts, Wrentham

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Gift of Miss Anna Cornette Brastow

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.60.2215Catalog Number: 60.2215Accession Number: 131186

Object Name: pot, mustard

Physical Description: silver (holder material)glass (insert or liner material)Measurements: overall: 4 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-78b0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_301144

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