Creampot Maker: Jacob Hurd (American, 1702–1758)

ca. 1740–50

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

4 in. (10.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1934.348

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Miss Mary Sullivan, Astoria, NY; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1934; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Jeannine Falino and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., New England Silver and Silversmithing 1620-1815 (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 2001), 37–39, fig. 22
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 594
  • Hollis French, Jacob Hurd and His Sons, Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths, 1702–1781 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 37, no. 113, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 108, 110–11, fig. 100
  • 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. 128–29, no. 150, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Shining Examples of Craftsmanship," Antiques 36, no. 5 (November 1939), 240–41, fig. 5
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

creamers

Marks

"HURD" in small rectangle at lip each side of handle

Inscriptions

"ME" engraved on bottom

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