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This unusual coffee pot features General Lafayette reclining by Benjamin Franklin's idealized tomb. It seems a strange subject to be on a ceramic, but death was romanticized in the 19th century. Cemeteries were turned into park-like settings where people would stroll amongst the graves. The elaborate funeral observances of mourning rituals and mourning jewelry and hair pictures made from deceased loved-one's hair were common throughout the Victorian era. This coffee pot, missing its lid, was made by the Wood pottery in Burslem, Staffordshire, England.</div>
This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Conner_Prairie" class="extiw" title="w:en:Conner Prairie"><span title="living history museum in Fishers, Indiana">Conner Prairie</span></a> as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America" class="extiw" title="w:Digital Public Library of America">Digital Public Library of America</a>, via its partner Indiana Memory.<span style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/CPTransware/id/350">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/6fbcaf8ba753923db44a32c9fafc9db7">6fbcaf8ba753923db44a32c9fafc9db7</a></li>
<li>Conner Prairie identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/CPTransware/id/350">http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/CPTransware/id/350</a></li></ul></span>