- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2014.527.4
- People
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Thomas Fletcher (Alstead, New Hampshire 1787-1842 New Jersey)
Sidney Gardiner (Mattituck, New York 1787-1866 Mexico)
- Title
- Covered sugar bowl for "Four-piece Tea/Coffee Service"
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1813
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/352466
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 22 x 17.4 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
56.7 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- coat of arms: engraved on front: an elephant's head with a snake issuing from its mouth and wrapping around its trunk [Appelton family coat of arms]
- inscription: Engraved on front, beneath Appleton family coat of arms: A
- Provenance
- Daniel Appleton (1813?), by inheritance; to William Sumner Appleton, Boston, MA, by inheritance; to Sumner Appleton Weld, Marblehead, MA, sold; [to Mr. David Marcus] sold; to Stephen Juvelis, Lynn, MA, gift; to Stuart P. Feld and his wife, 1988, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2014.527.4
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Donald L. Fennimore, "Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner: the Stylistic Development of their Domestic Silver", Antiques (October 1972), pp. 642-649, p. 643 repr. as fig. 1
Stuart P. Feld, Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism: 1810-1840, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, 1999), p. 77, cat. 39
Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner 1808-1842, exh. cat., Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Suffolk, UK, 2007), p. 74 and repr. as fig. 5.3
- Related Works
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