Sugar Bowl | Yale University Art Gallery

1756–60

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)
other (Cover): 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
base: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1932.49a-b
Geography: Made in Boston, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York; gift in 1932 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), 827

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. 183–84, no. 238

E. P. Richardson, The French in America, 1520–1880, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1951), n.p., no. 375

John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 72, no. 163

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

sugar bowls

"•Revere" in rectangle on bottom of bowl and on top of cover

"TJGM" engraved on cover; "ABF" monogram inside bowl at lip and inside cover

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