Teakettle
Teakettle
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- Description
- Onion-form teakettle with crooked gooseneck spout and cast-in arched ears for the forged strap bail handle, rectangular in section; three D-section feet. Cover is made of a flat, circular piece of sheet-iron cover nailed to a wooden disk; wooden knob. Kettle is hollow cast with horizontal and vertical seams on body and spout; body with single gate mark on bottom exterior. Raised cast-in mark below back ear has the serif letters "J.CP" between a sunburst above and below, all inside a serrated circle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- teakettle
- date made
- 19th century
- ca 1780-1820
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (pot material)
- iron, wrought (pot handle material)
- wood (cover material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 10 3/8 in; 18.0975 cm x 31.75 cm x 26.3525 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.46
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.46
- 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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