Miniature teapot | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1775–85

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 2 9/16 × 4 3/8 in. (6.5 × 11.1 cm)
base: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1934.375a-b
Geography: Made in Concord, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1934; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 180, 182

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, p. 215, no. 288, ill

John D. Kernan, Jr., "American Miniature Silver," Antiques 80 (December 1961), 567, fig. 2

From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 86, no. 137

John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 17, no. 8

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

teapots, utilitarian objects

"S•B" in oval on bottom

"JLB" engraved on side; "2-8-12" scratched on bottom

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