Object Details
- Meriden Britannia Company
- Description
- D-handled, coffee or hot water urn with tall cylindrical neck and ovoid lower body on circular, domed pedestal base mounted by four cast elk or stag head's legs with hoof feet; rounded cover is topped by a cube-and-ball finial. Cover, neck and body feature flat-chased curvilinear arches and pendants with shells and rosettes at their centers; body has swags with tassels connecting the pendants and two empty rectangular reserves at front and back. Knuckled-arm spigot has twist handle with bone knobs. Scroll-bracketed circular frame attached to interior of legs holds a removable, scroll-handled, single-wick spirit burner. Underside of base struck incuse with the circular, balanced-scales-in-shield mark of "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY", overstruck by another incuse circular mark for "ROGERS & BRO. / WATERBURY CONN." in serif letters; both above "1874 1/2".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Insilco Corporation
- 1867 - 1871
- ID Number
- 1984.0424.01
- accession number
- 1984.0424
- catalog number
- 1984.0424.01
- Object Name
- urn, coffee
- Physical Description
- silver plate (overall material)
- bone or ivory (knobs material)
- cotton (wick material)
- electroplated (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 9 7/8 in; 42.8625 cm x 27.305 cm x 25.0825 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Meriden
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Beverages
- Coffee Drinking
- Record ID
- nmah_322815
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-b00e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
