Spout Cup Maker: Nathaniel Morse (American, 1685–1748)

ca. 1715–25

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
other (Lip): 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
base: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1288a-b

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Dr. F. C. Martin; Luke V. Lockwood, Greenwich, Conn.; Francis P. Garvan, New York (1929); gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 704
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 102, ill
  • 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), 149, no. 157, ill
  • 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, p. 88. no. 97, ill
  • "American Silver Spout Cups," Antiques 44 (August 1943), fig. 7
  • 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), 65, no. 143
  • Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 71, no. 70
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 387–88, fig. 278
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 77, no. 208, pls. 26, 28, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"NM" in rectangle (at lip to left of handle)

Inscriptions

Leith crest engraved on side; "TRUSTY.TO.THE END" above in ribbon

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