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Measures 9.5 inches from bottom to top of cover. It is 10 inches from handle to spout! It is heavy! Weight is 5+ lbs! There are some small hairline cracks as if someone put hot water in it when it was cold. Also has a chip on the cover. Very stable and a wonderful piece!
HISTORY:These pots were designed for the Independant Order of Oddfellows Rebekah Degree starting in 1847. The Rebekah Degree allowed women related to an I.O.O.F. member to to join the Daughters of Rebekah. Rebekah originated from a Bible story. It was the most sucessful pot ever produced. Paraphrased from: COLLECTORS GUIDE to YELLOW WARE, pg. 29, Book III, by Lisa S. McAllister.
Add:Rockingham glaze, Rebekah at The Well pot created by the Edwin Bennett pottery of Baltimore, Md. in 1852, and modeled by Charles Coxson.(From Barber, pg. 143).
"Charles Coxson began modeling for this firm in 1850 and many of their pitcher forms, which were made in brown or Rockingham glaze, were designed and modeled by him; Among these were the Wild Boar pitcher, 1851 and the Rebekah at the Well teapot, in 1852." "Afterwards Mr. Coxson went to Trenton and established a pottery there" (Coxson & co). The type of glaze used was that of the type used and patented by the Norton co. of BENNINGTON , Vt. in 1848. "One of their specialties was the Patent Flint Enamel ware, a fine grade of Rockingham".
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