Creampot | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1785–95

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)
base: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1351
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

R.T.H. Halsey, New York, NY; Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY.

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. 118, no. 691

R. T. Haines Halsey, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Silver Used in New York, New Jersey, and the South, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911), 18, no. 31

Henry W. Kent and Florence N. Levy, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909), no. 271, [illus. opp. p. 100], ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

creamers

"E.B" in oval on each side of square base

"RB" monogram engraved on front; "WDB" on bottom.

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