Object Details
- Description
- Small, japanned, conical pitcher with an inset, V-shaped spout covered by a rounded, hinged lid connected to the tapered strap handle by a long triangular arm ending in a tiny scroll. Handle is soft-soldered to body at rim and vertical folded seam; flat bottom with folded edge. Later varnish or coating obscures decoration, which features a large, circular red flower below the spout flanked by two smaller buds, all three accented with curved, candy-striped white and alizarin overtones and surrounded by opposing groups of green and yellow leaflets. No marks.
- Attributed to the Connecticut Filley Tinshop of Bloomfield, CT, circa 1800-1846.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
- ca 1800-1846
- ID Number
- DL.257491.0003
- catalog number
- 257491.0003
- accession number
- 257491
- Object Name
- pitcher, molasses
- cup, molasses
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- iron wire (rim material)
- asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
- paint (exterior decoration material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 3/8 in x 4 11/16 in x 3 in; 11.1125 cm x 11.90625 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Bloomfield
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_309651
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-36af-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
