Beaker | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1773

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
other (Lip): 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
base: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1931.325
Geography: Possibly made in New Haven, Connecticut, or Stratford, Connecticut, or Durham, Connecticut, or Pawling, New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: 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 records is ongoing.

Provenance

Originally owned by Hannah Fowler (1696-1776); Congregational Church, Durham, T; Francis P. Garvan, New York, 1931; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

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. 239, no. 341, ill

An Exhibition of Early Silver by New Haven Silversmiths, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: New Haven Museum and Historical Society, 1967), 26, 83, no. 53, ill

Philip H. Hammerslough, Silver by Early Connecticut Makers, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1954), 13, no. 38

Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1935), 19, no. 64

The Early Plate in Connecticut Churches Prior to 1850, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1919), n.p., no. 27

E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1913), 153

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

beakers (drinking vessels)

Marks

"R•FAIRCHILD" in rectangle on bottom

Inscriptions

"The Gift of Widow hanh./ Fowler to the Church of/ Christ in Durham/ 1773" engraved on side; "9 OZ 2 P 12 GR." scratched on bottom

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