Andrew Ellicott Warner
Brandy Sauce Warmer
1818
Physical Qualities
Silver, wood, 5 1/8 × 3 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (13 × 8.9 × 19.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. J. Hall Pleasants
Object Number
1937.110
Silver brandy sauce warmer made by Andrew Ellicott Warner, 1819. Silver, wood. This charming covered warmer has a plain round-bellied body, a sparrow-beaked spout and a turned wood handle. The inset domed lid has a traditional ball finial that mimics the body of the warmer. The spout is placed perpendicular to the baluster turned handle. The side of the warmer opposite the handle has an elegantly engraved monogram "HDGC" which stands for Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll (1793-1866), the original owner. The warmer rests upon three arced legs, raising the body for straddling a candle or spirit lamp.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1937; Jacob Hall Pleasants (1873-1957), Baltimore, MD; Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll (1793-1866), Baltimore, MD
Gallery of the Towle Silversmiths, "The Odd and the Elegant in Silver," Newburyport, MA, Oct. 1, 1956-Oct. 1957
Pleasants, J. Hall and Sil, Howard. "Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830," Baltimore: Privately printed, 1930, p. 194, pl. XLIV, no. 6
Gallery of the Towle Silversmiths, "The Odd and the Elegant in Silver," Newburyport, MA, Oct. 1, 1956-Oct. 1957, Cat. 20, ill.
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 114, ill. p. 115.
Inscribed: "HDGC" inscribed on outside of bowl (in script)
Markings: on lid: 1. Maryland crest stamped on bottom of lid on inner lip 2. "C" stamped on bottom of lid on inner lip 3. Profile of a head stamped on bottom of lid on inner lip on body: 1. Maryland crest stamped on bottom of bowl 2. "C" stamped on bottom of bowl 3. "A.E.W." stamped on bottom of bowl 4. Profile of head stamped on bottom of bowl 5. "37.110" scratched/stained on bottom of bowl
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Chestertown Hallway/Case 2
