Sugar bowl | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1795

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

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
other (Lip): 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)
base: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1104a-b
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY

Bibliography

David L. Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 214–16, no. 117, ill

Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 176–77, fig. 191

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. 151, no. 754, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

sugar bowls

"Burger" in conforming punch and "NYork" in conforming punch on side of square base

"MMF" engraved in oval on side of bowl

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