Beaker Maker: Samuel Casey (American, 1723–1773)

ca. 1760–70

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
other (Lip): 3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
base: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1931.317

Geography

Made in Little Rest, Rhode Island

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Originally owned by Esther Helme; Mary Carpenter; her cousin, Bernon Helme; Herbert Lawton, Boston, MA; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1931; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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. 1, p. 293, no. 484, ill
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 88, 119, no. 144, 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), 22, no. 20
  • Rhode Island Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1936), no. 72
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

beakers (drinking vessels)

Marks

"S:C" in rounded rectangle on bottom

Inscriptions

"ESTER/ HELME" engraved on bottom

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