Teapot Maker: Gabriel Lewyn (American, w. ca. 1768–1780)

1770–80

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

6 × 3 × 9 1/4 in. (15.2 × 7.6 × 23.5 cm)

Credit Line

John Marshall Phillips Collection

Accession Number

1955.10.4

Geography

Made in Baltimore, Maryland

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Sidney T. Manning; Walter M. Jeffords, Glen Riddle, Pa.
Bibliography
  • Sarah D. Coffin and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008 (New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2008), 132–33, fig. 59
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 107, 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), 162, 178, no. 170, ill
  • Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, eds., American Art: 1750–1800 Towards Independence, exh. cat. (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 192–93, fig. 147
  • 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. 247, no. 959, ill
  • American Silver and Art Treasures: An Exhibition, exh. cat. (London: The English Speaking Union, 1960), 59, no. 180
  • Helen Comstock, "The John Marshall Phillips Collection," Antiques 68 (December 1955), 556, ill
  • J. Hall Pleasants and Howard Sill, Maryland Silversmiths, 1715–1830, 2 (Harrison, N.Y.: Robert Alan Green, 1930), 157, pl. 22, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

teapots, utilitarian objects

Marks

"GL" in rectangle 5 times on bottom

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