George Aiken
Teapot
1794-1804
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George Aiken
Teapot
1794-1804
Physical Qualities
Silver, ivory, 11 1/4 × 5 × 9 7/8 in. (28.6 × 12.7 × 25.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Ellen Howard Bayard
Object Number
1939.207
Made at about the same time as the Philadelphia coffee pot placed nearby, this Baltimore teapot also has an eagle finial. The engraved initials GMP are the only record of its original owner.
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1939; Ellen Howard Bayard (1863-1939), MD
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Wing Rotations 2022
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
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. 65, ill. p. 64.
Inscribed: Engrave monogram 'CGD'
Markings: on front edge of base - "Aiken"
On View at the BMA
