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American Decorative Arts
Explore image in Maker, attributed to: Godfrey Shiving, active ca. 1779
Teapot and stand
ca. 1790
Silver
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1932.51a-b
Geography:
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Culture:
American
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Containers - Metals
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.
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