Samuel Kirk’s bold cream pot revives the sweeping curves, naturalistic patterns, and pastoral landscapes of mid-18th-century design. A bed of flowers decorates the neck, foot, and handle. Buildings, towers, and fields emerge from a forest around the body. This elaborate style, known as Rococo Revival, became synonymous with Baltimore silver of the mid-19th century. Kirk and his sons were masters at hammering these curvaceous silver forms. Affluent Americans across the United States collected their pieces.