Sugar Tongs

1799

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Peter Leret

Sugar Tongs

1799

Physical Qualities Silver, 6 x 2 1/8 x 3/4 in. (15.2 x 5.4 x 1.9 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore

Object Number 1933.54.27

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD

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. 58, ill.

Inscribed: engraved on interior: "WV 13" "R" on end

Markings: stamps: "P. Leret" (one on each side of inside)

Maker

Peter Leret

American, Philadelphia, working 1779-1780; Carlisle, working 1782-1785; Baltimore, working 1878-1802

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