Skewer | Yale University Art Gallery

1791–93

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: other: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1095
Geography: Made in New York, New York, Made in New Bern, North Carolina
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Flatware
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Provenance

Luke V. Lockwood, Greenwich, Conn.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N. Y. (1929).

Bibliography

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. 160, no. 773

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), 37, no. 373

Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 93, no. 185

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

"FW" in chamfered rectangle at open end

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