Samuel Kirk & Son
“Etruscan” Waste Bowl
1844
Physical Qualities
Silver, 6 1/8 × 6 1/8 × 4 1/2 in. (15.6 × 15.6 × 11.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Georgiana Williamson in Memory of her Parents, David B. Williamson and Mary A. Butler Williamson
Object Number
1959.69
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. 158, ill.
Inscribed: Engraved on side: "MAB" script, for Mary A. Butler (Williamson)
Markings: Struck on bottom: "11 oz / S.KIRK & SON / 11 oz"