Cream Pitcher

1816-1825

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Littleton Holland

Cream Pitcher

1816-1825

Physical Qualities Silver, 6 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 5 3/4 in. (15.6 × 7.9 × 14.6 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. John M. Glenn

Object Number 1932.57.3

A serpent or dolphin handle and animal paw feet mark this cream pot as an example of American Empire silver. Such forms were popular in both Baltimore and Philadelphia. While the paw feet were cast using traditional methods, the running bands of ornament around the waist and base were milled. This cream pot is one of the first pieces of American silver to enter the Museum’s collection.

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1932; Mary Wilcox Glenn (1869-1940), Baltimore, MD

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. 100, ill.

Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds, "Silver in Maryland", Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983. p.129, ill.

Markings: on underside, stamped: "LH", Maryland flag, "D", female profile