Snuff Box Maker: Joseph Richardson, Sr. (American, 1711–1784)

ca. 1750–70

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

9/16 × 2 5/16 × 3 1/16 in. (1.4 × 5.9 × 7.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1281

Geography

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Willoughby Farr, Edgewater, New Jersey; purchased 1922 by Francis P. Garvan (1875 - 1937), New York, New York; gift 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 159, no. 166, ill
  • Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, eds., American Art: 1750–1800 Towards Independence, exh. cat. (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 196, fig. 150
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Joseph Richardson and Family, Philadelphia Silversmiths (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1974), 133–34, fig. 117
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 153, fig. 163
  • 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. 187, no. 837, ill
  • Philadelphia Silver, 1682–1800: Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 14–May 27, 1956, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1956), no. 376
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

snuffboxes

Marks

"IR" in rectangle with leaf below inside bottom.

Inscriptions

"1[1 or 7].29" scratched inside lid

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