Pepper box | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1725–40

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
other (Lip): 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
base: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1273
Geography: Made in Newport, Rhode Island
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Luke V. Lockwood, Greenwich, Conn.; Francis P. Garvan, New York; 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), 869

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, p. 279, no. 464, ill

Rhode Island Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1936), no. 174

Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 82, no. 126

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

pepper shakers

"DR" in rectangle with foil on top line on bottom

"TFE" engraved on one panel

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