George Aiken
Sugar Tongs
1794-1804
Physical Qualities
Silver, 6 x 1 3/4 x 7/8 in. (15.2 x 4.4 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.101
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. 63.
Markings: marks: "WV 20" engraved on interior "RAik" ?? stamped on interior (R. Aiken?) "P" engraved on end of tongs (possibly "R", difficult to say because of flaw)
On View at the BMA
