Stock Buckle | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1750–70

Medium: Gold
Dimensions: 1 3/4 × 1 5/16 in. (4.45 × 3.3 cm, 20 g)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter M. Jeffords, B.A. 1905
Accession Number: 1944.89
Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Walter M. Jeffords; gift 1944 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Martha Gandy Fales, Joseph Richardson and Family, Philadelphia Silversmiths (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1974), 147-148, fig. 129

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. 2, pp. 187–88, no. 838, ill

Peter J. Bohan, American Gold, 1700–1860, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1963), 39, no. 79

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

"IR" [Roman] in relief within rectangle on back of center stud.

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