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Richard Rutter

Cream Pot

1789-1799

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Richard Rutter

Cream Pot

1789-1799

Physical Qualities Silver, 7 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 4 7/8 in. (18.7 × 6.7 × 12.4 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number 1960.41.35
Richard Rutter’s helmet-shaped cream pot is considerably more refined than the one by John Chalmers [#5].
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1960; Philip B. Perlman (1890-1960), Baltimore, MD
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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. 73, ill.
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds, "Silver in Maryland", Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983. p.184, ill.

Markings: maker's stamp on side of base: "rutter"

Maker

Richard Rutter

1789–1797

American, Baltimore, working 1790-c. 1798
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