Museum Collections

Wrought silver teapot, oval, boat-shaped body with wide gadrooning around the lower body on an applied round stepped foot with egg and dart applied footring and a die-rolled acorn and floral band pedestal; concave shoulder with an applied egg and dart band below and a convex band above; applied vertical egg and dart rim; hinged, concave lid raised to a flat oval dome in the center covered with chased acanthus leaves; hollow cast finial in the shape of a basket of flowers; cast, s-curve spout with a notched serpents head; cast c-curve handle, made in vertical halves, circular in section and swelling toward a cinched center, handle sockets are formed from the single upper scroll terminus and the double lower terminus; fitted with ivory insulators; engraved, "J E B" in script on the interior of the base; maker's marks on base.