Samuel Kirk & Son
“Etruscan” Hot Water Urn
1844
Physical Qualities
Silver, ivory, 16 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. (42.5 × 14.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Georgiana Williamson in Memory of her Parents, David B. Williamson and Mary A. Butler Williamson
Object Number
1959.64
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. 154, ill.
Inscribed: Engraved on side: monogram "MAB" [script], for Mary A. Butler (Williamson)
Markings: Struck on underside: "S.KIRK & SON / 11 oz"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Willow Brook/Case 3
