1973.127: Teapot
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1973.127
- People
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William Moulton IV, American (1772 - 1861)
- Title
- Teapot
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1808
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/227075
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 17.8 x 33 x 12.7 cm (7 x 13 x 5 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Makers' mark on bottom stamped twice [raised in rectangle]: MW. Inscribed on side: EEW/1808. Incised on bottom: E12856.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- C. N. Greene, by 1947. Stephen Green, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Stephen Greene
- Accession Year
- 1973
- Object Number
- 1973.127
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Design matches 1972.128a and b, 1972.129, elongated oval-octagonal shape with carved wooden handle attached with nails, hinged lid topped with finial. Spout has a cut-out pattern at tip.
Exhibition History
- GenEd US12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
Verification Level
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