- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2020.185
- People
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Benjamin Burt, American (Boston, MA 1729 - 1805 Boston, MA)
- Title
- Cream Jug
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1765
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369960
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)
85 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- maker's mark: under base, stamped: B[pellet]BURT [mark of Benjamin Burt]
- inscription: under base, engraved: G / PA
- Provenance
- Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson, sold [through Christie's, New York, January 27-28, 1995, lot 611]. [Firestone and Parson, Boston]. [Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 2003, lot 839]. Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Pollack Collection, gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.185
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Pear-shaped vessel with a scalloped rim. Trefid feet and handle with opposing scrolls
- Publication History
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The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, January 27, 1995), pp. 21-22, lot no. 611, repr.
Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 14, repr.
"Harvard Art Museums Receive Important Gift of American Silver", Artfixdaily Artwire ([e-journal], March 22, 2022), https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6573-harvard-art-museums-receive-important-gift-of-american-silver, accessed March 24, 2022
- Related Works
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