Standing Cup Maker: I. T. (active ca. 1785–95)

1631–32

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

1/2 × 4 3/16 in., 12 t oz., 7 dwt. (1.3 × 10.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.138

Geography

Made in England

Culture

British

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Possibly originally owned by Rev. Samuel Newman; his son, Rev. Noah Newman; Newman Congregational Church, East Providence, RI; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1936; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • 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), 34, 102–3, no. 79, 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, p. 314, no. 542.
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 18–19.
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 38–39, fig. 3.
  • E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1913), 161–62, pl. 56.
  • John Henry Buck, Old Plate, Its Makers and Marks, 2d ed. (New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1903), 257, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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