The practical book of early American arts and crafts . Bottom of Plate made by Cesar Ghiselin, showing Texture of Silver and Makers Mark Courtesy of the Eector and Vestry of Christ Church, Philadelphia Tray, Quill Holder, Ink Pot and Sand Shaker, made by Philip Syng, the Younger, in 1752, for the Pennsylvania Assembly. Used in Signing the Declaration of Independence. Courtesy of the Curator of the State House, Philadelphia Pear-shaped Sugar Bowl by George Dowig, 1765; Saucepan, by Joseph Richardson, c. 1796; Wine SyphonC. Hartman Kuhn Collection, Pennsylvama Museum and School of Industrial Art
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . Bottom of Plate made by Cesar Ghiselin, showing Texture of Silver and Makers Mark Courtesy of the Eector and Vestry of Christ Church, Philadelphia Tray, Quill Holder, Ink Pot and Sand Shaker, made by Philip Syng, the Younger, in 1752, for the Pennsylvania Assembly. Used in Signing the Declaration of Independence. Courtesy of the Curator of the State House, Philadelphia Pear-shaped Sugar Bowl by George Dowig, 1765; Saucepan, by Joseph Richardson, c. 1796; Wine SyphonC. Hartman Kuhn Collection, Pennsylvama Museum and School of Industrial Art. SILVER; DOMESTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL 155 handles were either of ear type or scroll shaped andplaced vertically; rings hanging from lions mouths;or else of shaped contour and fixed horizontally. Coffee Pots were not often to be met with till to-wards the middle of the eighteenth century. The earliestwere of a cylindrical form tapering towards the top,had a curved spout, shaped scroll wooden handle letinto sockets (Fig. 11, H) soldered to the back, and adrum lid with finial {v. plate illustration of coffee potby Pygan Adams). Coffee pots were always built ontall, cylindrical lines as opposed to the low and oftenglobular contour of tea-pots. The later coffee pots,however, while maintaining and even increasing theirheight and relative circumference, shared somewhat inthe characteristics of contemporary tea-pots. Theyhad shaped sides, swelling out noticeably, like invertedpears, in the lower portion of the body and then sharplyreceding to the stock or pedestal which rose from anornate mould
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