Samuel Kirk & Son
“Etruscan” Teakettle, Stand, Lamp
1844
Physical Qualities
Silver, ivory, 15 1/8 × 9 3/4 × 11 1/4 in. (38.4 × 24.8 × 28.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Georgiana Williamson in Memory of her Parents, David B. Williamson and Mary A. Butler Williamson
Object Number
1959.63
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
Baton Rouge, Anglo-American Art Museum, Louisiana State University, "Silver of the Old South; Being in an Exhibition of Silver Made in the South Before 1860", January 10-February 29, 1968
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. 152, no. 181, ill. p. 153.
Inscribed: Engraved on side: monogram "MAB / from / MW" [script]
Markings: Struck on underside: "11 oz / S.KIRK & SON / 11 oz"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Willow Brook/Case 3
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