Brooklyn Museum: Decorative Arts: Cream Pitcher

Cream Pitcher

Maker: Tiffany & Company, American, founded 1853
Medium: Silver
Place Made: New York, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1868
Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 4 in. (14.6 x 13.7 x 10.2 cm)
Markings: Stamped on bottom: "Tiffany & Company / 1516 / M Quality 925-1000 M / 2740 / 550 Broadway"
Signature: no signature
Inscriptions: Inscribed on body on one side of pitcher: "Presented to / Peter B. Anderson / by the / Old Dominion Steamship Co. / 1868." Inscribed on the opposite side: a large paddle wheel steamboat.
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 71.144.5
Credit Line: Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt
Image: Right, 71.144.5_right.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004

Catalogue Description: Silver cream pitcher, part of a five-piece service. Globular body with modified Greek key band around the mid-section, bead on underside of rim, vertical handle with high arched top. CONDITION: Three dents in body of pitcher.

Collections: Decorative Arts: Cream Pitcher