Hot Milk Jug Maker: Wood and Hughes (American, active 1840–99)
Honorand: George B. Cheever, D. D.

1862

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Coin silver

Dimensions

9 1/4 × 5 5/16 × 4 in., 17 oz. (23.5 × 13.5 × 10.2 cm)

Credit Line

Marie-Antoinette Slade Fund and Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, by exchange

Accession Number

1993.36.1

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Containers

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Bibliography
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 149, no. 87, ill
  • "Acquisitions and Gifts 1993," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 157, 159, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

milk jugs

Inscriptions

"PRESENTED / TO / Geo. B. Cheever. D.D. / by / HIS COLORED FRIENDS. / As a small token of their high / regard for him as a faithful / Minister of the Gospel and / the fearless Advocate of Liberty / to the oppressed Slave. / New York. Jan. 1862" engraved on the front of the jug

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