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Tea Pot

• Maker: Tiffany & Company, American, founded 1853
• Medium: Silver, bone or ivory
• Place Made: New York, New York, USA
• Dates: ca. 1868
• Dimensions: 6 x 9 3/8 x 6 in. (15.2 x 23.8 x 15.2 cm)
• Markings: Stamped on bottom: "Tiffany & Company / 1516 / M Quality 925-1000 M / 2740 / 550 Broadway"
• Signature: No signature
• Inscriptions: Inscribed on body on one side of pot: "Presented to / Peter B. Anderson / by the / Old Dominion Steamship Co. / 1868." Inscribed on the opposite side of the body: a large paddle wheel steamboat.
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 71.144.2
• Credit Line: Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt
• Image: Overall, 71.144.2_left.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Tea Pot, ca. 1868. Silver, bone or ivory, 6 x 9 3/8 x 6 in. (15.2 x 23.8 x 15.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt, 71.144.2 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 71.144.2_left.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Silver teapot, part of a five-piece service. Globular body with modified Greek key band around mid-section. Lid slightly domed and hinged to body surmounted by berry finial. Short vertical spout joined to body with inverted fan-like palmette on underside; round C-shaped handle joined to body with scroll motif and saw-tooth band (top juncture). Rings of bone or ivory set between handle and body. CONDITION: Eight small dents in body.