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Accession # 48.113
Culture American
Maker Eben Smith
Title Teapot
Date 1814-1856
Medium Britannia ware
Dimensions 11 3/4 x 6 3/8 in. (29.8 x 16.2 cm)
Marks "E. Smith" [in rectangle]
Credit Line Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location Visible Storage: Case 20, Shelf D (Pewter)
Description So-called "lighthouse" form: tall, cylindrical, flaring shape with ebonized loop handle (replaced at later date) and mushroom finial; engraved with bands, twin flower-garland escutcheons, ribbed bands at top and bottom.