Teakettle
Teakettle
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- Description
- Pit-bottom teakettle with bellied gooseneck spout and cast-in arched ears on its high, rounded shoulder for the strap bail handle, half-round in section. Pivoting, low-domed lid swings on bearing above back ear. Both pieces are hollow cast: body has a horizontal, faceted seam that extends to top of spout and single, long gate mark on bottom exterior; cover has "FOXELL, WOODNORTH & JONES" encircling "TROY, / N.Y." at center, all cast in raised sans serif letters.
- Maker is Foxell, Woodnorth & Jones of Troy, NY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- teakettle
- date made
- late 19th century
- ca 1850-1860
- place made
- United States: New York, Troy
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (kettle, lid material)
- iron, wrought (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/8 in x 13 in x 8 1/4 in; 18.7325 cm x 33.02 cm x 20.955 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.18
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.18
- Credit Line
- Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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