Creampot
James Turner, American, active 1744 - 1759
about 1750-1759
Silver
Overall: 3 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (9.5 × 8.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchase made possible through the generosity of Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924
M.987.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Marked on bottom: J TURNER [pellet between, in cartouche]; engraved on front: [armorials in a rococo cartouche of shellwork, scrolled straps and sprays of reeds and bullrushes--possibly the arms of the MacKarty or Macartey family]; engraved, on bottom: MM [pellet between]
Course History
HIST 9.1, Empires and Colonies in North America, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1990-January 22, 1991.
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 25, 1997--November 6, 2006.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1987.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 73.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 73.
Sotheby's Important Americana Including Furniture, Folk Art and Folk Paintings, Prints, Silver and Carpets, New York, January 29, 1987, no. 303.
Art and Auction Reviews, Silver, New York, Sotheby's, Vol. IX, no.9, April 1987, p. 135.
Eleanor H. Gustofson, The Magazine Antiques, December 1987, p. 600, March 1988.
Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver: Garvan and other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols., New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1970, vol. I, p. 211, no. 281.
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 934-937, 1998.
Provenance
Purchased from Sotheby's through the generosity of Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924. 1987
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