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Chocolate Pot

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1820-1899

GUSN

GUSN-60335

Description

Pewter chocolate pot with a bulbous body, a spout, a flared foot, hinged lid, and a turned wood handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chocolate pots
casting (process)
pewter (tin alloy)
Vessel, Drink Serving
Pot, Chocolate
Pot, Chocolate

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.4034

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