Coffeepot
- Object Name:
- Coffeepot
- Object ID:
- 1956.013
- Creator:
- Wishart, Hugh (1766-1840) -- Silversmith
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1817
- Description:
- Coffee Pot. Silver. Rounded rectangular body and base on ball feet, curved spout, squared, flat-topped handle of wood pinned into silver sockets. Built-in strainer in a key-shape. Cover is hinged with ball finial above large, deeply scalloped down-turned rosette. Foliated shields inscribed "1817" and monogram "HFG" in script. Hole in bottom of each foot, which are hollow. Engraved bands on shoulder of twisted ribbon with rosettes and a flat ribbon enclosing alternating panels of roses and lattice work with corner rosettes. Mark on long side of base: "H. WISHART" within a rectangle. There is also an eagle with wings spread in a circle.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- H-9.25 W-12 D-4.625 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Harriet F. Gardner (1799-1866) of Newport, RI. She was the great- grandmother of Harriet M. Spaulding (1876-1954), the wife of Huntley N. Spaulding (1869-1955). Bequest of Huntley N. Spaulding, Governor of New Hampshire, 1927-1929, and President of the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1937-1954.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Huntley N. Spaulding
- People:
- Gardner, Harriet F. (1799-1866), Wishart, Hugh (1766-1840), Spaulding, Harriet M. (1876-before 1955), Spaulding, Huntley N. (1869-1955)
- Subjects:
- Coffeepots, Silver
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