Coffeepot

Description:

Urn-shape coffeepot with tall, incurved neck, flared shoulder and tapered cylindrical body on flared and molded, circular pedestal base; base of neck and shoulder are scored. Tiered, high-domed, hinged lid with overhanging edge is topped by wood mushroom knop. Black-japanned, spurred C- and S-curve handle is pinned into cylindrical sockets. Body is perforated at plain S-scroll spout with split lip. Inset flat bottom has rectangular mark on inside and is struck incuse on underside "R. DUNHAM" in raised serif letters in a scalloped rectangle.

Maker is Rufus Dunham of Westbrook, Maine (1816-1893); working 1837-1860.

Date Made: 1837 - 1860

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Maine, Westbrook

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

Exhibition:

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Credit Line: Gift of Wallace H. Andrews

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1993.0217.18Catalog Number: 1993.0217.18Accession Number: 1993.0217

Object Name: coffeepot

Physical Description: Britannia (overall material)pewter (overall material)wood (knop material)paint (finish on knop and handle material)Measurements: overall: 11 3/4 in x 10 3/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 29.845 cm x 26.3525 cm x 13.97 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-9ade-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1157706

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