Standish Barry
Sugar Tongs
1789-1799
Physical Qualities
Silver, 6 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 3/4 in. (16.8 x 6.7 x 1.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.121
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. 50.
Markings: stamped "BARRY", "No. 92" on interior engraved with "WV 27" (similar, less legible mark reading "WV 24" but scratched out) engraved on end of tongs: "G (or I) R M"
On View at the BMA