George Aiken
Teapot
c. 1800
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
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: American Wing Second Floor, Chestertown/Case 1
