Nursing Bottle Maker: Unknown

1750–1800

American Decorative Arts

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

Pewter

Dimensions

6 5/16 in. (16 cm)
other (body): 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
other (base of cap): 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.810a-b

Geography

Made in Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Ledlie I. Laughlin, Princeton, N.J.; purchased by Howard Reifsnyder (1869–1929), Philadelphia; American Art Association, Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of the Late Howard Reifsnyder (New York, 1929), 57, cat. 232; purchased by Francis P. Garvan on 25 April 1929. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Gerald W. R. Ward, Patricia E. Kane, and Helen A. Cooper, Francis P. Garvan, Collector, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 36, 39
  • Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, eds., American Art: 1750–1800 Towards Independence, exh. cat. (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 218, fig. 184
  • John Carter, "A Checklist of the Extant Pewter of Johann Christoph Heyne," Pewter Collectors' Club of America 7, no. 1 (December 1974), 30, no. 63
  • Charles Messer Stow, "Pewter and Ceramics Notable in the Garvan Collections," New York Sun (9 August 1930),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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