Left:
Thomas William Brown (American, 1823-1872)
Tea service, ca. 1840–50
Silver
Top Right:
Gene Theobald (American, active 1920s-1930s)
"Diament" teapot, 1928
Silverplate and plastic
Overall: 7 1/2 x 6 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (19.05 x 16.828 x 9.208 cm)
Manufactured by Wilcox Silver Plate Company,
American (active 1867-1961),
division of International Silver Company, American (founded 1898)
The Jewel Stern American Silver Collection
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Bottom Right:
Paul Revere, Jr. (American, 1734–1818)
Teapot, 1796
Silver
Overall 6 1/16 x 11 5/8 in., 668.7 grams
(15.4 x 29.5 cm, 21.499 troy ounces);
Base 5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in. (14.4 x 9.5 cm)
Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933 (33.120.543)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image © 1986 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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About Picturing America:
Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.