Teapot Maker: Jacob Hurd (American, 1702–1758)

probably 1738

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
base: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
other: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1205

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Originally owned by James Townsend (1699–1738), Boston; his half sister, Rebecca Mason; Crichton Bros., New York; Francis P. Garvan, New York (1917); gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 610
  • Hollis French, Jacob Hurd and His Sons, Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths, 1702–1781 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 47–48, no. 268, pl. 7, 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. 125–26, no. 147, ill
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 96, no. 182, ill
  • Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 69, no. 63
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

teapots, utilitarian objects

Marks

"Hurd" in oval (on bottom).

Inscriptions

Townsend arms and crest in scroll and acanthus cartouche and: "The Gift of Jams Townsend / to Reb Mason. / 1738" below, engraved on side; "16 oz" on bottom.

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