Tea Service
Tea Service
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- Description
- Four-piece stacking tea service, consisting of a plain, low-domed lid with mushroom knop, a cylindrical sugar bowl with loop strap handle, a matching creamer, and a squat, globular teapot with hollow C-shaped handle and S-curve spout with split lip. Teapot body perforated at spout. Sugar bowl, creamer and teapot each banded with five grooves. Bottom underside of teapot struck incuse with maker's mark and pattern number; other pieces are unmarked.
- Maker is Bernard Rice's Sons of New York, NY; in business, circa 1897-1950.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tea service
- date made
- 1928-1929
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 6 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 16.8275 cm x 10.795 cm
- ID Number
- 1990.0339.14
- catalog number
- 1990.0339.14
- accession number
- 1990.0339
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. John H. Murray (Anne W. Murray)
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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