Beaker
Beaker
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- Description
- Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with straight tapered sides, a faint band of five incised lines, and an applied molded rim and foot ring, both with beading; flat bottom set in. Engraved in script on opposite sides of exterior "W\m C.P. Breckinridge." and "S.A. Society Premium, / for Essay 1858." Bottom underside struck once "JOHN KITTS & CO." in incuse serif letters.
- Maker is John Kitts & Co. of Louisville, KY; active circa 1836-1878.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Beaker
- beaker
- date made
- 1858
- place made
- United States: Kentucky, Louisville
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 3 1/8 in; 10.16 cm x 7.9375 cm
- ID Number
- DL.383995
- catalog number
- 383995
- accession number
- 172945
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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