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American Decorative Arts
Maker: Nathaniel Burr, American, 1698–1784
Teaspoon
ca. 1780
Silver
other: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1930.1473
Geography:
Made in Fairfield, Connecticut, North America
Culture:
American
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Flatware
Provenance:
Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1935), 14, no. 31.
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. 236, no. 335.
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