Provenance

Commissioned by the Yale Class of 1888 for Allen Trafford Klots (1889–1965), New Haven, Conn., later New York, 1891 [see note 1]; by descent to his son Allen Trafford Klots, Jr. (1921–1985), New York, 1965; by descent to his sister, Joan Porter (née Joan Mary Klots, 1923–2009), Antigua, 1985; by descent to her daughter, Elizabeth Ball (née Elizabeth Leigh Porter, 1944–2019), Duxbury, Mass., 2009; by descent to her sister, Kim Sands (née Kim Porter, born 1949), Peterborough, N.H., 2019; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1: The cup celebrated the “Class Boy,” or the first son born to a member of a given class. The “Class Boy” for the Class of 1888 was Allen Trafford Klots, son of Maud Klots (née Maud A. Allen, 1862–1951) and Charles Allen Klots (1869–1926, B.A. 1888). The cup was presented to Charles and the infant Allen at a reunion dinner held on 23 June 1891 (“Class Reunions,” Yale Daily News, June 26, 1891, and “Yale ’88 Class Boy to Attend Stimson Party,” Washington Post, 13 January, 1931).