Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)
National Museum of American History

Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)

1770 - 1800

pewter (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

Tapered cylindrical, handleless pot with wide, everted, single-reeded rim on an applied, molded foot ring; made to be placed in a commode chair or stool. Sets of three and two incised lines around exterior. Bottom underside is engraved with a wrigglework semicircle containing "Abram Tuckerman" in script above "BOSTON" in shaded Roman letters and a shaded "I" or the Roman numeral "II" beneath the semicircle. No marks apparent.

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