Museum Collections

Wrought silver teapot; oval in plan with gadrooning around the lower body; upper body flares to chased and repousséd decorative band of scallops and flowers; convex stepped shoulder with applied, vertical die-rolled foliate band around the rim; on an oval stepped base with die-rolled, applied foliate band around the vertical footring; hinged lid oval in plan, flat at edges and raised to oval dome with elaborate cast finial in the shape of a floral bouquet; c-curve hollow handle, made in vertical halves, circular in section, swelling towards a crimped center, with bulbous thumbpieces; handle sockets create a single upper terminal and a double lower terminal; ivory insulators; plain, curved spout with a notched lip, seamed up the back; bright-cut engraved, "H" (for Hendricks) in the front center; maker's marks on the base.