Cooking pot on three, semicircular feet with a flared lip, bulbous body and forged bail handle looped around triangular lugs or ears. Hollow cast with three fillets around body, the lower one is a horizontal seam; two vertical seams on upper half and single gate mark on bottom exterior. Partial cast-in mark on side of two dotted surrounds with "SAM[PSON &] TISDALE" in one and "NEW YORK" in the other, both in raised serif letters.
Maker is Sampson & Tisdale of New York, NY; partnership of John Sampson and Samuel F. Tisdale.