Coffeepot
Coffeepot
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- Description
- Baluster-shaped coffeepot on flared circular base with scored and molded decoration around rim, neck, belly, and base. High-domed, incised-edge, hinged lid is topped by wood disk knop. S- and C-curve, D- or ear-shaped handle with crescent thumbrest is pinned into cylindrical sockets. Body perforated at plain, S-curve spout with split lip. Underside of inset flat bottom struck incuse with circular touch mark of "A. GRISWOLD" with spreadwing eagle, body facing right and head turned left.
- Maker is Ashbil (or Ashbel) Griswold (1784-1853); working, circa 1802-1842. Trained with Thomas Danforth III as a pewterer; opened a shop in Meriden in 1808 and expanded into producing britannia wares at an early date, establishing Meriden as a major manufacturing center of pewter, britannia and plated goods. Was one of the founding partners of the Meriden Britannia Co. in 1852.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- coffeepot
- date made
- ca 1820 - 1840
- ca 1820-1840
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Meriden
- Physical Description
- Britannia (overall material)
- pewter (overall material)
- wood (knop material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 27.305 cm x 13.97 cm
- ID Number
- DL.391781
- catalog number
- 391781
- accession number
- 71679
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gertrude D. Webster
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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