Milk Pitcher
Milk Pitcher
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- Description
- Large, raised pear-shape cream pot on three cast C-curve legs with flat trefoil feet attached to body by shells. Chased and repousse leafy floral designs and C scrolls on body surround a peaked-top, C-scroll cartouche at front engraved "EF" in conjoined shaded foliate script. Flared curvilinear rim has wide pouring lip creased at center. Cast C- and S-curve handle has single sprig and split-scroll lower terminal. Underside of rounded body is struck with three marks around centerpunch, the raised serif letters "IS" or "SI" in a rectangle, Ceres' head facing left with "8" at lower right in a rectangle, and an illegible motif in a rectangle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pitcher, milk
- date made
- ca 1826 - 1860
- place made
- Italy: Sicily, Sicily
- place used
- Italy
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 6 1/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 15.24 cm x 15.5575 cm x 9.8425 cm
- ID Number
- DL.63.0824
- catalog number
- 63.0824
- accession number
- 245151
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Hugh E. Cailler
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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