Collection Highlights
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
1824
1940.202
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Coffeepot
Object name
Coffeepot
Date
1855
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 6 in. ( 32.4 x 26 x 15.2 cm )
Silver Weight: 30 oz (troy) 18 dwt (961 g)
Description
Wrought and cast silver presentation coffeepot with a bulbous, urn-shaped body with repouss
Credit Line
Gift of the Honorable Perry Belmont
Object Number
1936.36
Marks
engraved: on the body: the Perry family crest, an anchor on fess below a hind's head, on one side and the inscription, "Presented to Commodore/ Matthew Calbraith Perry/ by the Chamber of Commerce and/ Merchants of New York" in script on the other side
stamped: on the base: "WM. GALE & SON/ NEW YORK" over "W/ G/ &/ S" in an oval over, "1/55/8" in a diamond
Gallery Label
On December 28, 1855, the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants of new York presented Commodore Matthew Calbraith perry with a 381-piece silver dinner service in acknowledgement of his successful negotiation of a treaty with Japan in 1854. In the letter of presentation the committee remarked, "To have brought this secluded Empire, into the intercourse of nations; is an achievement which may justly be ranked, among the greatest events of the age..."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
