William Garrett Forbes
Gravy Boat
c. 1780
Physical Qualities
Silver, 4 1/2 × 7 3/4 × 3 11/16 in. (11.4 × 19.7 × 9.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.26
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD by purchase, November 1920; Mr. Pitt
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 37, ill.
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Silver in Maryland", Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983. p.114, ill.
Inscribed: Inscribed monogram on the side: "P.C.W."
Markings: no hallmarks
