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- Description
- Cooking pot on three, semicircular feet with a flared lip, bulbous body and forged bail handle looped around triangular lugs or ears. Hollow cast with three fillets around body, the lower one is a horizontal seam; two vertical seams on upper half and single gate mark on bottom exterior. Partial cast-in mark on side of two dotted surrounds with "SAM[PSON &] TISDALE" in one and "NEW YORK" in the other, both in raised serif letters.
- Maker is Sampson & Tisdale of New York, NY; partnership of John Sampson and Samuel F. Tisdale.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pot
- date made
- ca 1830 - 1840
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (pot material)
- iron, wrought (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 5/8 in x 7 in x 6 in; 14.2875 cm x 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.79
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.79
- Credit Line
- Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
- subject
- Cooking
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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