Clasp | Yale University Art Gallery

1803–9

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

Medium: Gold
Dimensions: 5/8 × 1 1/16 in. (1.59 × 2.7 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1938.312
Geography: Made in Alexandria, Virginia
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Nancy Moore Dundas, Alexandria, Virginia; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1937; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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. 269, no. 1016, ill

Peter J. Bohan, American Gold, 1700–1860, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1963), 36, no. 59

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

clasps (fasteners)

"I*G" [Roman capitals] in shaped cartouche twice on back.

"Nancy Moore Dundas" engraved in script around the edge of the clasp's face.

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