Marrow Spoon Maker: Charles Brewer (American, 1778–1860)

ca. 1800–1810

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

other: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1460

Geography

Made in Middletown, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th–19th century

Classification

Flatware

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Provenance
Originally owned by Mary Pomeroy Alsop; F. J. O. Alsop; Mrs. Theodore Otis Barnard, West Barnstable, Mass.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Peter J. Bohan and Philip H. Hammerslough, Early Connecticut Silver 1700–1840 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007), 142, pl. 120, 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. 260, no. 426
  • George Munson Curtis and Florence Virginia Berger, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911), 8, no. 64
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

marrow spoons

Marks

"C Brewer" in shaped rectangle on back of handle

Inscriptions

"MA" engraved on front of handle; "1760" engraved on back of handle

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