Caster Maker: Benjamin Greene (American, 1713–1776)

ca. 1735–41

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
other (Lip): 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm)
base: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1941.246

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
The Gale family, Troy, NY; gift in 1941 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 508
  • 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, pp. 147–48, no. 178, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

casters (vessels)

Marks

"BG" in oval, on bottom

Inscriptions

Eliot arms engraved on side; "Given to H-Gale in Remembrance / of her Brother-Saml Eliott who / died on the Coast of Affrica / I Iany 1741 Aged 24" on other side

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