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- Description
- Plain pot on three, semicircular feet with a forged bail handle looped around pierced flat-top tabs; tapered sides and rounded bottom. Hollow cast with a low-relief design, placed once on body, of a spreadwing, shield-body eagle, banner in beak facing left, above the raised serif letters "MB", all within a fluted-edge trapezoid; two crossed gate marks on bottom exterior.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pot
- date made
- 1800-1850
- 19th century
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (kettle material)
- iron, wrought (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 7/8 in x 11 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in; 20.0025 cm x 29.21 cm x 24.765 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.71
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.71
- 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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