Coffee Pot
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Punchbowl server with shell-shaped bowl and coral-like handle. Part of a table service set (237767), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, United States. (Sandra Castro, 2021).
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Creator
Fernando and Tomás Zamora
Date
1903
Identifier
237767
Origin
Manila, Philippines
Materials
The pieces have not been tested as to metal content but the Smithsonian identifies it as is silver or silver-plated and copper alloy. The local name for the material is “ tumbaga “ (silver-plate on a copper alloy). (Sandra Castro, 2021)
Physical Dimensions
13.5" long
Provenance
Gifted to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History by then Secretary of War William Howard Taft in 1906. The punch bowl server is part of a 33-piece set crafted by Filipino silversmiths, Fernando and Tomás Zamora around 1903. The set was exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark expositions before being purchased and then gifted to the NMNH by then Secretary of War William Howard Taft in 1906—three years before he was elected president.
Acquisition Date
1906
Short description
Search for the rest of the 33-piece set by going through the object tour under Representing the Colony: The Zamora Table Service
Display status
Not on display. This was displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, ·Missouri) in 1904 and at the Lewis and Clark Exposition (Portland, Oregon) held the following year. In 1906, the War Department of the United States purchased the set and displayed it a third time at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle, Washington) in 1909. (Sandro Castro, 2021)
References
Castro, Sandra. “History and Ornamentation in Philippine Colonial Silver,” Arts of Asia (Sept-Oct 2020), 116-127.
http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/media/?i=14909078
Annual Report of the Board of Regents at the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the year Ending 1906.
http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/media/?i=14909078
Annual Report of the Board of Regents at the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the year Ending 1906.
Acknowledgements
Photo credit: Marisa Ventura Diaz-Etchevehere
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Fernando and Tomás Zamora, “Coffee Pot,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed June 27, 2022, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/4346.
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