Creamer, 1774
Creamer, 1774
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- Description
- The East India Company was the wealthiest private corporation of the day. Parliament gave its stockholders a bailout by giving the company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade in 1773. They also kept a tax on the tea. Patriots in nearly every colony blocked sale of the tea, either reshipping it back to England or forcibly storing it in locked warehouses. Boston was the first city to destroy East India Company tea, in December 1773. This silver creamer reminded tea drinkers not to indulge.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jug, cream
- pot, milk
- date made
- ca 1774
- maker
- Dupuy, Daniel
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Measurements
- overall: 11.5 cm x 11 cm x 6.5 cm; 4 17/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 2 9/16 in
- ID Number
- 2010.0219.01
- accession number
- 2010.0219
- catalog number
- 2010.0219.01
- subject
- Beverages
- Tea Drinking
- Indians
- Native Americans
- American colonies
- Liberty Cap
- Revolutionary War
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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