Teapot
- Object Name:
- Teapot
- Object ID:
- 2008.038.03.03
- Creator:
- Manhattan Plate Company
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Teapot. Silver-plated; white metal and brass; Renaissance Revival Style. Rounded urn-shaped body with tapered stem, flared and stepped base and a straight foot. Reticulated ribbed strap handle with two ivory insulators. Curved, stepped top with curved, hinged, stepped cover with urn-shaped finial. Applied curved and ribbed spout with flared opening. Cast beaded egg and dart molding bands around rim, top and foot. Vertical oval laurel wreath engraved on two sides with an old English script "H" hand engraved in center of one wreath. Wreaths connected by floral swag band around body. Two double dot bands around rim beneath egg and dart band. Dotted band around top of stem. "MANHATTAN PLATE COMPANY / NEW YORK" and two people, and a coat-of-arms topped with an eagle, stamped in polygon on bottom.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver
Brass
Ivory - Dimensions:
- H-10.529 W-9.7 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Margaret M. Bolus, great-granddaughter of James Riggs Hill. Hill owned the set.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret M. Bolus
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