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Cream Pot
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Cream Pot

Dateca. 1810
Marked by Johnson & Reat (1804 - 1815)
MediumSilver
DimensionsOH (to top of handle): 6 3/16”; H (to spout): 5 9/16”; OW (handle to spout): 4 15/16”; W (foot): 3 3/16”; OD (body): 3”; D (foot): 2 ¼”.
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections
Object number2018-265
DescriptionSilver cream pot: stepped twelve-lobed oval foot with slender neck supports oval boat-shaped body with convex bank below wide, high pouring lip opposite angular reeded strap handle. Lower body with twelve vertical lobes or gadroons; pouring lip and top rim with gadroon border. Marked on the exterior edge of the foot in relief with spread eagle on one side and JOHNSON & REAT in conforming rectangle on the other.
Label TextMade by the Richmond, Virginia, silversmithing partnership of Johnson & Reat, this cream pot and its companion covered sugar dish have a family history of ownership by Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835).
MarkingsMarked on the exterior edge of the foot in relief with spread eagle on one side and JOHNSON & REAT in conforming rectangle on the other.
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