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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Teapot
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Teapot

Manufacturer Gale & Moseley
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1830
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 x 13 in. (26.7 x 33 cm)
InscribedStamped on bottom with pseudo English marks of king's head, serrated rectangle enclosing "G & M" & crowned leopard's head.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., in honor of Anne Rowland
Object number84.415
Not on view
DescriptionTeapot; large and raised on high oval foot with bands of gadrooning; pot steps up with bands of the same decoration and ends in hinged lid with oval urn shaped finial, long curved spout and ear-shaped handle are applied.

4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020.
Christian Wiltberger
ca. 1785-1800
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2010.
Samuel Kirk & Son
ca. 1892-1924
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Fletcher & Gardiner
ca. 1810-1820
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Fletcher & Gardiner
1815-22
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Hugh Wishart
ca. 1800
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1800-1815
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces
ca. 1922-1925
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Robert Hennell I
1780-81
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Georg Jensen
ca. 1933-1945
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Samuel Kirk & Son
1903-1924
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Hester Bateman
1782-1783