Lighthouse-style pewter teapot with domed, hinged lid with ornament; curved spout; S-shaped handle with thumb rest; and bands at base and rim.
teapots
pewter (tin alloy)
pewter (tin alloy)
tin (metal)
britannia metal
Teapot
"(?).Lee" (in a rectangle (probably the mark of Richard Lee Sr. of Springfield, Vermont))
Original To Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge, Mass.),
Probably Lee, Richard (Pewterer)
Springfield, Vermont
10 1/2 x 8 (HxW), 5 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Eleanor Clarke Bowser
1982.190
1820 (Circa)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Springfield (Windsor county, Vermont)
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