Spider Pot
Spider Pot
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- Description
- Skillet or spider on three semicircular legs with a slightly flared lip and an integral, tapered, cylindrical handle; nearly vertical sides and rounded bottom. Hollow cast with single gate mark on bottom exterior. No additional marks. Old paper label is affixed to inside bottom and inscribed in script: "Presented by / Miss Mary Harter, Bloomfield, N.J. / in memory of her sister / Mrs. Sarah Harter Starr / Shipped by O. G. Schaefer, Verona, N.J."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- spider
- date purchased
- 1818
- place purchased
- United States: Ohio, Somerset
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 14 1/2 in x 7 5/8 in; 14.605 cm x 36.83 cm x 19.3675 cm
- ID Number
- DL.379163
- catalog number
- 379163
- accession number
- 147603
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Mary Harter
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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