Antique Early Roswell Gleason Pewter Coffee Pot 1860

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Antique Early Roswell Gleason Pewter Coffee Pot 1860 Antique Roswell Gleason Pewter Coffee Pot This fine antique coffee pot is by Roswell Gleason who worked from 1822 thru the 1870's. This wonderful rare pot with its hinged lid and wood rimmed finial measures approximately 13" high X 10" wide. T is one in the Brooklyn Museum. Good Luck and Thanks for Looking. I accept paypal under the email address only. Payment Policy I accept paypal under the email address ONLY. is a link to the one in the Brooklyn Museum /research/luce/object.php?id=21999 some other examples /vzn05wao/pcca/Designs.htm /shops/nhantiquecoop/item/970 They are still reproducing his designs and they can be found new in many stores. Why not own an original. This coffeepot can be polished to shine like new if you like that look. Roswell Gleason, 1799-1887 Born in 1799, Roswell Gleason spent his early years on a farm in Putney, Vermont. In 1818 he arrived in Dorchester and found employment with Mr. Wilcox, a maker of tinware. When Wilcox retired a few years later, Gleason went into business for himself, beginning with the manufacture of block tin and pewter. By 1837, when the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association awarded Gleason a medal for his tinware, he had also branched out into the production of britannia ware with considerable recognition. In the 1850s with the encouragement of Daniel Webster, Gleason and one of his sons opened the first silver-plating establishment in America. At one time he employed 125 men at his factory on Washington Street. By 1851 Gleason had become wealthy enough to be included in a book entitled Rich Men of Massachusetts. Indeed, Lilacs, his home on Washington Street, built in 1837, had become one of the show places in the neighborhood of Boston. He owned a property of 25 acres with a 1,000 foot frontage on Washington Street encompassing his house and 15 other structures including stables, outbuildings and factory buildings. Park Street was installed on the southern border of his land. In the 1890s after Gleason's death and the subdivision of the property, Claybourne Street (originally Ridge Road) was constructed, and the Gleason House was turned around to face east, later becoming 101 Claybourne Street. The house was one of the area's finest examples of the transition from Greek to Gothic Revival domestic architecture. The form of the house was characteristic of Greek Revival standards, but the decorative elements were part of the late Gothic style. The two-bay entrance contained a portico of gothic spirelets and floor-length lancet-shaped sidelight windows. T was a two-story, three-bay porch composed of arcaded, pointed arches supported by clustered columns with annulets below the capitals and scroll-carved decoration in the spandrels. The interior of the house was decorated in Empire style. Many of the features of the house were taken by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for its collection prior to demolition of the building in the 1980s. When Gleason began the production of silver-plate, the style of his work began to change from the simple, traditionally inspired design of his early work to a more heavily ornamented and opulent style which better suited the tastes of his Victorian clientele. Largely due to this ability to adapt to changing tastes and to keep abreast of technical advances in manufacturing, Gleason's operation continued to prosper. In his later years, business suffered when the Civil War interrupted sales in the southern states. After both his sons died, and an explosion occurred in one of his factories, he retired in 1871 at the age of 72. Sources: Berman, Julie. "Roswell Gleason House." In Alliance Letter, Monthly News... read more

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