Coffeepot
Coffeepot
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- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- coffeepot
- date made
- 1837 - 1860
- place made
- United States: Maine, Westbrook
- 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
- ID Number
- 1993.0217.18
- catalog number
- 1993.0217.18
- accession number
- 1993.0217
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wallace H. Andrews
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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