Collection Highlights
Decanter and stopper
1823-1845
1936.696ab
Glass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Creamer
Object name
Creamer
Date
1896
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 4 in. ( 8.9 x 15.9 x 10.2 cm )
Description
Cast silver creamer in the Georgian melon pattern; round, squat body with chased lobes decorated with a foliate scroll design; on four cast legs attached to the body with trefoils dropping into paw feet; convex shoulder flared to a scalloped extended pouring lip and rim with applied cast gadrooning; simple, seamed scrolled silver handle; engraved, "A T M" in script on the side front, and "November 10th 1897" in script on the base; makers' marks on base.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Townsend M. McAlpin
Object Number
1974.27d
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 underside of center front foot also stamped with pattern nuymber incuse: "175", and right foot stamped incuse "3 1/4 pt", which presumably relates to vessel quantity.
Gallery Label
This creamer 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.
