Cup | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1720–40

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
other (Lip): 3 in. (7.6 cm)
base: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1318
Geography: Made in Boston, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

George C. Gebelein, Boston; 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), 551

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. 91, no. 102

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

cups

"BH" over addorsed cresents in shaped shield (at lip to left of handle and on bottom).

"IMK" engraved on handle.

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