Mustard Pot | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1750–60

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 4 15/16 in., 163 g (12.54 cm)
diam. lip: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
base (diam.): 2 3/4 in. (6.99 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1085
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

C.W. Lyon, Albany, NY; Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY.

Bibliography

Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, p. 96, no. 653

V. Isabelle Miller, Silver by New York Makers, Late 17th Century to 1900, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1937), 21, no. 192

E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of Europe and America (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928), 41

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

mustard pots

"BGCS" monogram in bright-cut shield suspended from bowknot, with crossed branches below, engraved later on front; "RB" and "E TE" under foot.

"IM" in rectangle on bottom, three times

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