Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Hot milk pot
Object Number:
1974.27c
Date:
1896
Medium:
Silver, ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 17.8 x 16.5 x 11.4 cm )
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 right front foot also
Description:
Cast silver hot milk pot 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 a scalloped extended pouring lip and rim with applied cast gadrooning; hinged, cast lid curved to the form of the rim with a raised mushroom dome in the center and chased, scrolled foliate design; flared s-curve finial; simple, seamed scroll silver handle fitted with ivory insulators; engraved, "A T M" in script on center front, and "November 10th 1897" in script on the base; makers' marks on base.
Gallery Label:
This hot milk pot 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.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Townsend M. McAlpin
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
