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Pear-shaped; hinged domed lid with disk finial and incised banding. Incised banding to body, on extended straight foot and flat base. Pewter scroll handle with thumb piece and S-scroll spout. Spout and handle of darker and heavier metal.
teapots
casting (process)
incising
pewter (tin alloy)
tin alloy
Cast
Pewter
Incised
Queen Anne
TEAPOT
Incised on bottom underside: [faintly incised name; indistinct. Possibly H. Smith. Maker? Probably owner?]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 x 8 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.612
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