Samuel Kirk
Pitcher
1827
Physical Qualities
Silver, ivory, lid closed: 7 3/8 × 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (18.7 × 14 × 8.9 cm.)
lid open: 4 1/8 × 3 × 1 1/4 in. (10.5 × 7.6 × 3.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Ellen Howard Bayard
Object Number
1939.208
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1939; Ellen Howard Bayard (1833-1911) by descent
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. 139, ill.
Inscribed: RECTO: Engraved in script "WLG" on pitcher VERSO: Engraved "crest" on pitcher (in dexter hand a scroll of paper within a garland of laurel proper)(Gilmer or Gilmour of Scotland)
Markings: Marked underneath pitcher "SAM L KIRK / F / S.K. 11. oz"
