Teapot
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Silver
DATES
ca. 1825
DIMENSIONS
height: 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm); diameter of base: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
(show scale)
MARKINGS
In center: double circle enclosing "FLETCHER & GARDINER" with "PHILA"
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
76.36
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Friends of Halsted James
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Teapot, silver. Circular, stepped base with bead molding and capped with flange of egg-and-dart repoussé molding at top beneath globular body. Band of cast shell and scrolls around middle of body. Body topped with flange of egg-and-dart molding and beading in repoussé. Dome-shaped, hinged lid with repoussé acanthus and leaf decoration and leaf-and-berry finial. Wooden ear-shaped handle carved with acanthus scroll and painted black with cast silver mounts at either end. Elongated s-shaped spout, cast acanthus decoration running along bottom of spout from body, cast flower on top of spout at spout opening.
CONDITION: Excellent; one minor scratch on upper half of body.
CAPTION
Sidney Gardiner. Teapot, ca. 1825. Silver, height: 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm); diameter of base: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Friends of Halsted James, 76.36. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 76.36_SL4.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 76.36_SL4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
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