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Samuel Kirk & Son

“Etruscan” Hot Water Pitcher

1844

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Samuel Kirk & Son

“Etruscan” Hot Water Pitcher

1844

Physical Qualities Silver, ivory, 9 × 8 3/8 × 4 1/4 in. (22.9 × 21.3 × 10.8 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Georgiana Williamson in Memory of her Parents, David B. Williamson and Mary A. Butler Williamson
Object Number 1959.66
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1959; Georgina Williamson (1865-1959) likely by descent; David (1831-1886, m. 1860) and Mary Butler Williamson (1837-1904) New York, NY by gift, 1860
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. 156, ill.

Inscribed: Engraved on side: monogram "MAB" [script], for Mary A. Butler (Williamson)

Markings: Struck on underside: "S.KIRK & SON / 11 oz"

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