Teakettle
Teakettle
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- Description
- Turnip-form, tilting teakettle with crooked gooseneck spout, three D-section feet and three cast-in square ears, two at sides for the arched, forged wire bail handle and one at front bolted with a flat, scrolled-top lever. Low-domed, molded cover has a cast-in wire loop handle and "W W" in raised serif letters. Both pieces are hollow cast: cover has gate mark on top; kettle has horizontal and vertical seams on body and spout with single gate mark on bottom exterior. Lever is stamped incuse "AB[?] (arched)" in serif letters and "2".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- teakettle
- date made
- early 19th century
- ca 1800-1830
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (pot, cover material)
- iron, wrought (handle, tilting lever material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/4 in x 11 7/8 in x 9 1/4 in; 20.955 cm x 30.1625 cm x 23.495 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.50
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.50
- Credit Line
- Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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