Coffeepot or Teapot
Israel Trask, American, 1786 - 1867, active about 1813 - 1856 (Beverly, Massachusetts)
about 1813-1856
Btitannia metal (pewter variant)
Overall: 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm)
Base: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift from the collection of Ethel and Robert E. Asher, Class of 1931
M.991.7.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Marked, on base: I TRASK [pellet between, in rectangle (Jacobs #262)]
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.
American Pewter [A small case exhibition primarily of loans and promised gifts], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 1985-February 1986.
Publication History
Peter R. G. Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, Moreland, Illinois: 1983, p. 169, fig. 515.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 201, no. 175.
Provenance
Garland Pass, Avon, Connecticut; sold to Robert E. Asher (1910-2008) and Ethel Watson Asher (1905-1987), Washington, D.C., 1981; given to present collection, 1991.
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