Caleb Shields
Cream Pot
1769-1779
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Caleb Shields
Cream Pot
1769-1779
Physical Qualities
Silver, 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (11.4 x 8.3 x 10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.14
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Wing Rotations 2022
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 43, ill.
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Silver in Maryland", Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983. p.187, ill.
A late American manifestation of curvaceous rococo design, this cream pot has a scalloped lip, a scrolled handle, and three scrolled legs with trifid (threelobed) feet. The maker, Caleb Shields, came to Baltimore in the early 1770s when his brothers were speculating in Baltimore real estate.
-David Park Curry, American Wing Reinstallation 2014
-David Park Curry, American Wing Reinstallation 2014
Markings: Stamped on underside: "S/IS", "CS" (3x)
On View at the BMA
