Provenance: Mary Otis, Boston;[1] gift 1869 to her niece, Emily Marshall Elliot [later Mrs. Samuel Elliot Morison];[2] gift 1925 to her granddaughter, Elizabeth Morison Spingarn [Mrs. Edward D.W. Spingarn], Washington; gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The provenance was provided in a letter of 11 November 1996, from the Corcoran donor, Elizabeth Springarn, to Linda Simmons, Corcoran curator; in NGA curatorial files.
[2] The teapot is inscribed "M.O. to E.M.E. / 1869."