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Cream Pitcher

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Silver
DATES ca. 1868
DIMENSIONS 5 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 4 in. (14.6 x 13.7 x 10.2 cm)  (show scale)
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.
ACCESSION NUMBER 71.144.5
CREDIT LINE Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt
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.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Cream Pitcher, ca. 1868. Silver, 5 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 4 in. (14.6 x 13.7 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt, 71.144.5. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 71.144.5_right.jpg)
IMAGE right, 71.144.5_right.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
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