- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2020.198
- People
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Joseph Richardson Jr., American (Philadelphia 1752 - 1831 Philadelphia)
Nathaniel Richardson, American (Chester, Pennsylvania 1754 - 1827 Philadelphia)
- Title
- Coffeepot
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1780
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369968
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver and fruitwood
- Dimensions
- 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.)
1049 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- monogram: side, engraved: NLJC
- inscription: side, engraved: [Birkat Kohanim / Priestly Blessing]
- maker's mark: under base, stamped: I [pellet] NR [conjoined] [in rectangle] [mark of Joseph and Nathaniel Richardson]
- maker's mark: under base, stamped: I [pellet] NR [conjoined] [in rectangle] [mark of Joseph and Nathaniel Richardson]
- Provenance
- Private collection, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, January 20-22, 2006, lot 166]. 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
- 2020.198
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Double-bellied pear-shaped body with a fluted spout and gadrooned urn finial. Wood handle
- Publication History
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Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 23, 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
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