Coffeepot Maker: Charles Le Roux (1688–1748)

ca. 1725–35

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)
other (Lip): 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
base: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.999

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
James Alexander (?); his son, William Alexander (1726-83); Mrs. Henry Williams Biddle, Philadelphia, Pa. (1917); her daughter, Mrs. (Christine Cadwalader) Bayard Bowie, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (1921); Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY (1926).
Bibliography
  • Pearls to Pyramids British Visual Culture and the Levant 1600-1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2008), 15
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 103, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 101–3, fig. 91
  • 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. 64, no. 613, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), 75, no. 250, fig. 42
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part II, 1700–1750," Antiques 55, no. 2 (February 1949), 119, ill
  • V. Isabelle Miller, Silver by New York Makers, Late 17th Century to 1900, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1937), 18, no. 172
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 44
  • E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of Europe and America (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928), 35, (desc. as by Christopher Robert, ca. 1751)
  • Exhibition of Old American and English Silver, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1917), ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

coffeepots

Marks

"CLR" in oval at lip each side of handle

Inscriptions

"JAF" (?) cypher, in serrated double-circle, engraved on side opposite spout; "IFA" and "30 oz = 3 p" on bottom

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