Pitcher Maker: Paul Revere (American, 1735–1818)

ca. 1805

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

6 5/16 in. (16 cm)
other (Lip): 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
base: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1223

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Probably originally owned by John and Lucy Howard; Frederick H. Nazro; Francis H. Bigelow, Cambridge, Mass.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 819
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 108, ill
  • Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 338, ill
  • 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), 78, no. 45, 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. 201–2, no. 264, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), 77, no. 275
  • Francis de N. Schroeder, "Makers of Tradition 8: The Goldsmith Who Lost a Horse," Interiors (February 1950), 95, 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), 100, no. 198, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part IV, Rococo and Federal Periods," Antiques 56 (July 1949), 45, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 70, no. 155
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 83, no. 245, pls. 26. 27, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

pitchers, utilitarian objects

Marks

"REVERE" in rectangle with uneven lower line on bottom

Inscriptions

"ILH" engraved later on front

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