Tea set | Yale University Art Gallery

probably 1817

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 10 1/2 × 10 3/4 in. (26.7 × 27.3 cm)
other: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary Williams Crozier and William Williams, B.A. 1884, in memory of their grandmother Lucretia Woodbridge Williams
Accession Number: 1947.310a-c
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Owned by Lucretia Woodbridge Williams

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 110, ill

Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 299, 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), 43, 170–71, no. 178, 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. 2, pp. 148–49, no. 751, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

tea services

No marks on teapot -- see 1974.310.b and c

"LWP" monogram engraved on a gadroon at side; "25-14" scratched on bottom

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