SPECIAL ADVISORY: The Yale University Art Gallery is free and open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday. Masks and COVID-19 vaccination (including booster, if eligible) are required.Review our Visitor Policies
American Decorative Arts
PrevNext1 of 5
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext2 of 5
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext3 of 5
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext4 of 5
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext5 of 5
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Maker: W. G. (1), 1775–1785
Maker, formerly attributed to: William Gowen, American, 1749–1809
Maker, probably by: William Grant, Jr., American, 1766–1814
Pair of Shoe Buckles
ca. 1785
Silver, steel or iron
each piece: 3 1/8 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/8 in. (7.9 × 5.7 × 2.9 cm)
weight of a: 67 g
weight of b: 65 g
weight of a: 67 g
weight of b: 65 g
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1930.1110a-b
Geography:
Made in Great Britain
or made in United States
Status:
On view
Culture:
American or British
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Jewelry
Provenance:
Francis P. Garvan (1875-1937), New York; gift in 1930 to 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), 35, 70–71, no. 36, 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. 1, pp. 213–14, no. 286, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
