Bread basket | Yale University Art Gallery

1800–1810

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

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 11 1/2 × 10 5/8 × 14 7/8 in. (29.2 × 27 × 37.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1402
Geography: Made in Baltimore, Maryland
Culture: American
Period: 19th 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

Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 109, 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), 166, no. 174, 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. 2, p. 249, no. 966

An Introduction to Silver: Catalogue of an Exhibition on View Oct. 31, 1953–May 9, 1954, exh. cat. (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1953), no. 176

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

"GA" in chamfered rectangle and "EB" in rectangle under top of handle

"36 oz 18 dwt 0 grd" scratched on bottom

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