Tankard Maker: Benjamin Burt (American, 1729–1805)

ca. 1756

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
other (Lip): 4 in. (10.2 cm)
base: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1297

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Originally owned by John North; his wife, Elizabeth Pitson North. With Hannah E. North, Conn., ca. 1870. [American Art Association, New York, 30 January 1929, lot 183]; by purchase to Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Ethan Lasser, "Selling Silver: The Business of Copley's Paul Revere," American Art: Smithsonian American Art Museum 26 (Fall 2012), 31, detail, fig. 4
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 240
  • 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. 1, pp. 162–63, no. 209, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 20, no. 15
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"BENJAMIN BURT" in two lines, in cartouche, at lip each side of handle

Inscriptions

North arms impaling Pitson in shell and foliate cartouche, with crest of a dragon's head above, engraved on front; "The Gift of John North / to his Wife, Elizabeth / 1756" on bottom

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