Covered pitcher | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1810

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

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm)
other (Lip): 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)
base: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1403
Geography: Made in Boston, Massachusetts
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, 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), 710

Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 317, 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. 1, p. 217, no. 290, ill

John Marshall Phillips, "Shining Examples of Craftsmanship," Antiques 36, no. 5 (November 1939), 240, fig. 1

John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 65, no. 144

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

pitchers

"D Moseley" in rectangle on bottom

"Henry / Barney Smith" engraved between bands on front

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