Description: Spherical teapot (with stand, HD 89.034.02) made of silver plated copper (Sheffield plate) with tinning on the inside of the pot and underside of the base, which has a painted ivory finial on the domed lid; a band of engraved acanthus leaves round the body of the pot; a shaped spout and wooden C-shaped handle; and four fluted shpaed legs terminating in claw feet attached to a pierced rectilinear pierced base with four concave sides. The pot, which descended in the Fuller family of Deerfield, came with three hand-written notes: "This belonged to Grandfather Fuller. We understand it was brought ? England by our Ancestor in Early 1600" and "old Fuller teapot / Aaron's 1st wife was Elizabeth. Elizabeth their daughter married Abercrombie (Cheapside Wharf). Teapot came to William & Hattie who gave it to Elizabeth B. Fuller. Came with the sideboard originally." and "Round Tea Pot / Aaron Fuller/ ?" The son of Isaac (1759-1847) Abercrombie and Martha Abercrombie (d.1837 of the Cheapside section of Deerfield, Asiel Abercrombie married Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1817-1906), the daughter of Aaron Fuller (1786-1859) and his first wife, Elizabeth Hill Fuller (d.1818) of Deerfield, in 1845. Miss Elizabeth Fuller (1896-1979) was the daughter of George Spencer Fuller and Mary Williams (Field) Fuller of Deerfield.
Subjects: Copper Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+89.034.01 |