Teapot and stand Maker, attributed to: Godfrey Shiving (w. ca. 1779)

ca. 1790

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1932.51a-b

Geography

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Jacob and Margaret (Bartleson) Benners (b. 1790); his son, George W. Benners; his daughter, Nannie M. Benners, Beach Haven, N.J.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y. (1931).
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. 2, p. 220, no. 891, ill
  • Philadelphia Silver, 1682–1800: Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 14–May 27, 1956, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1956), no. 472, 473
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

teapots, utilitarian objects

Marks

"GS" in rounded rectangle on bottom of each

Inscriptions

"IMB" monogram, in bright-cut oval, engraved on side

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