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- Description
- Banded-lip pot on three, ribbed feet with a forged bail handle looped around triangular lugs or ears; shallow interior lip, tapered rim and sides and rounded bottom. Hollow cast with a quarter-round bead or fillet below rim and "CARRON" in raised sans serif letters at an angle once on body; circular sprue mark on bottom exterior.
- Maker is Carron Co., founded by John Roebuck, Samuel Garbett, William Cadell in 1759 along the Carron River in Falkirk, Scotland.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pot
- date made
- 1760-1830
- late 18th-early 19th century
- place made
- United Kingdom: Scotland, Carron
- United Kingdom: England
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (kettle material)
- iron, wrought (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 5/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 8 in; 16.8275 cm x 24.4475 cm x 20.32 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.73
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.73
- Credit Line
- Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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