The kettle has a flattened, ovoid chamfer-sided swing handle attached to projecting tabs. It has an slightly domed, circular lid with a brass mushroom-shaped finial. It has sloping shoulders, a tapering, cylindrical base and goose neck spout.
teakettles
cookware
brass (alloy)
copper (metal)
Brass
Copper
TEAKETTLE
Impressed on the handle is a circular motif, circling around it is: EXA.MASTER. Some initials in the circle are illegible.
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
1986.799A,B
Unknown
12 x 13 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.799AB
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