Dish Maker: Samuel Danforth (American, 1774–1816)

Medium

Pewter

Dimensions

other: 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1931.270a

Culture
Period

18th century

Classification
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Bibliography
  • Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, eds., American Art: 1750–1800 Towards Independence, exh. cat. (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 214–15, fig. 173
  • Ledlie I. Laughlin, Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks, Volume III (Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1971), 77
  • Graham Hood, American Pewter: Garvan and Other Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1965), 22, no. 75
  • Ledlie I. Laughlin, Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks, 2 vols. (Boston: Barre Publishers, 1940), 118–19, vol. 1
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Additional information

Object/Work type

dishes, utilitarian objects

Marks

Laughlin marks 400 X, 404, and 397a

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