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    "localId": "119326",
    "label": "Teapot",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "119326",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Teapot",
    "description": "This teapot not only demonstrates Hurd's mastery of the art of forging silver, but of engraving it as well. The design for the coat of arms of the Gibbs family incised on this teapot was probably taken from Guillim's Display of Heraldry, published in 1724. In Hurd's portrait by Copley the words \"Display of Heraldry/J. Guillim\" are visible on the spine of the large book shown at the sitter's elbow.",
    "date": "c. 1755–60",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.228",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779298"
    ],
    "creators": [
        33346
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Silver"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.228/1940.228_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.228/1940.228_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.228/1940.228_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "with handle: 14.5 x 24.4 cm (5 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America"
    ],
    "accession": "1940.228"
}

{
    "tec": "Silver, Wood",
    "tombstone": "Teapot, c. 1755–60. Nathaniel Hurd (American, 1730–1778). Silver, Wood; with handle: 14.5 x 24.4 cm (5 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hollis French, 1940.228",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved:  coat of arms of Gibbs on side."
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The master silversmith Nathaniel Hurd, whose portrait hangs nearby, made this teapot engraved with the crest of the family that commissioned it. Tea was a precious commodity in Colonial America and this silver piece would have held a place of honor at the owner's tea table.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"A Collection of Early American Silver Gift of Hollis French.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>27, no. 9 (November 1940): 131-142.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 135; Reproduced: p. 140",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140882"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 332",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n64"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 153",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n177"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 153",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n177"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 196",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n216"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. <em>Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 41"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 136"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.228",
    "creditline": "Gift of Hollis French",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:09:50.918000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.228/1940.228_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 119326,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "Silver, Wood",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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