Beaker | Yale University Art Gallery

1785–1805

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
other (Lip): 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
base: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1931.353
Geography: Made in Newport, Rhode Island
Culture: American
Period: 18th–19th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 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. 298, no. 496, ill

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Additional information

Object/Work type

beakers (drinking vessels)

"N. GEOFFROY" in serrated rectangle on bottom, twice

"ISM" monogram, in bright-cut urn, engraved on front

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