Teakettle
Teakettle
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- Description
- Pit-bottom teakettle with crooked gooseneck spout and cast-in arched ears on its high, rounded shoulder for the flat-arched, forged wire bail handle; three button feet. Stepped and molded cover has a flared rim and scalloped-edge wedge grip. Both pieces are hollow cast: body has a horizontal seam that extends to top of spout and a single gate mark and raised "8" on bottom exterior.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- teakettle
- date made
- 1825-1850
- ca 1850-1870
- place made
- United States: New England
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (kettle, cover material)
- iron, wrought (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 3/4 in x 12 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 31.115 cm x 21.59 cm
- ID Number
- DL.64.1002
- catalog number
- 64.1002
- accession number
- 253788
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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