Basin | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1750–ca. 1820

Medium: Pewter
Dimensions: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
rim: 8 1/16 in. (20.4 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.713
Culture: probably British
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Louis Guerineau Myers, New York; purchased by Francis P. Garvan on 1 July 1929. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

David L. Barquist, American and English Pewter at the Yale University Art Gallery: A Supplementary Checklist (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1985), 69, 80, no. 263, ill.

Arnold Skromme, "A Shell Handled Porringer– Marked WE," Pewter Collectors' Club of America vol. 8, no. 1 (March 1980): 36–39.

Ledlie I. Laughlin, Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks, Volume III (Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1971), pl. 103, fig. 827.

Graham Hood, American Pewter: Garvan and Other Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1965), 45, no. 165, ill.

Ledlie I. Laughlin, Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks, 2 vols. (Boston: Barre Publishers, 1940), 21, pl. 70, vol. 2, fig. 593.

Louis Guerineau Myers, Some Notes on American Pewterers (New York: Country Life, 1926), 40–41, ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

basins

Laughlin mark #593

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