Collection Highlights
Wedding dress: yellow brocade with lace
1730-50 with several alterations into the 20th century
1949.115a
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Coffeepot
Object name
Coffeepot
Date
1896
Medium
Silver, ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 6 in. ( 19.7 x 26.7 x 15.2 cm )
Description
Cast silver coffeepot in the Georgian melon pattern; round, squat lower body with a chased lobes decorated with a foliate scroll design; on four cast legs attached to the body with trefoils dropping into paw feet; convex shoulder below an elongated neck flared to scalloped rims with applied cast gadrooning; hinged, cast lid with a raised mushroom dome and chased, scrolled foliate design; lobed knob finial; simple, seamed scroll silver handle fitted with ivory insulators; cast, curved spout with notched lip; applied, acanthus leaf pendent at lip; engraved, "A T M" in script on center front, and "November 10th 1897" in script on the base; makers' marks on base.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Townsend M. McAlpin
Object Number
1974.27a
Marks
engraved: center front: "A T M" in script
engraved: on base: "November 10th 1897" in script
Mark: stamped along bottom around periphery four times incuse: "HOWARD & CO." / "NEW YORK" /"STERLING" / "1896".
Mark: stamped on underside of right front foot with pattern number incuse: "175" and right back foot stamped incuse " 3 p"
scratched: on the base a foot: "134/1"
Gallery Label
This coffeepot was a wedding gift to the donor's parents, Alice Townsend Martin, whose initials are engraved on the service, and Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, on November 10, 1897.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
