Samuel Kirk & Son
“Etruscan” Covered Sugar Bowl
1854
Physical Qualities
Silver, 9 1/8 × 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (23.2 × 21 × 14.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary R. Shields in Memory of Sallie R. Janney and John H. Janney
Object Number
1971.68.5
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1971; Mary Randolph Janney Shields (1895-1993), Pittsburgh, PA likely by descent; John Hall (1866-1933) and Sallie Randolph Turner Janney (1868-1948), Montgomery County, MD likely by descent; Margaret Hopkins Janney Elliott (d.1915), Baltimore, MD by gift, c. 1860; Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) and Sarah Hopkins Janney (1799-1879) by commission
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Decorative Arts Accessions 1968-1973", February 27-April 17, 1973.
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. 161, ill.
Inscribed: Engraved on side: "MHJ" script, for Margaret Hopkins Janney
Markings: Struck on underside: "S Kirk & Son / 11.oz"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 05A/Case 1
