American Decorative Arts
Public domain
Maker: Nathaniel Burr, American, 1698–1784

Teaspoon

ca. 1780

Silver

other: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1930.1473
Culture: 
American
Period: 
18th century
Classification: 
Flatware
Geography: 
Made in Fairfield, Connecticut, North America
Status: 
Not on view
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.

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 such records is ongoing.