Teapot
1782
Artist, American, 1735 - 1818

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G41-C
Artwork overview
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Medium
silver, wood, and metal
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 15.2 × 28.9 × 8.9 cm (6 × 11 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2014.136.365
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary Otis, Boston;[1] gift 1869 to her niece, Emily Marshall Elliot [later Mrs. Samuel Elliot Morison];[2] gift 1925 to her granddaughter, Elizabeth Morison Spingarn [Mrs. Edward D.W. Spingarn], Washington; gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The provenance was provided in a letter of 11 November 1996, from the Corcoran donor, Elizabeth Springarn, to Linda Simmons, Corcoran curator; in NGA curatorial files.
[2] The teapot is inscribed "M.O. to E.M.E. / 1869."
Associated Names
Exhibition History
-1
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, during World War II.
2008
The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2008.
Inscriptions
on the underside of the pot: REVERE; engraved at end of spout: M.O. to E.M.E / 1869; engraved on front of lid: [three illegible initials] / m. 1782
Wikidata ID
Q62758952