Coffee Pot
Decorative Arts
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Silver
DATES
ca. 1868
DIMENSIONS
9 in. (22.9 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
On bottom: "Tiffany & Company / 1516 / M Quality 925-1000 M / 2740 / 550 Broadway"
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed on body of 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 on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
ACCESSION NUMBER
71.144.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt
RIGHTS STATEMENT
Creative Commons-BY
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CAPTION
Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Coffee Pot, ca. 1868. Silver, 9 in. (22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt, 71.144.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 71.144.1-.5_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
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