Collection Highlights
Memorial sample card
Date:
Object Number:
1947.490a
Medium:
Watercolor and hair on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tea service
Object Number:
1939.217a-e
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Silver, ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 12 x 7 1/8 in. (27.3 x 30.5 x 18.1 cm)
Marks:
Inscription: all four vessels are engraved at center on fronts: "Jane Borrowe/ from/ Ann Colt" in script
Mark: all pieces stamped on bases: "G. BOYCE" in a conforming rectangle over "N. Y." in a conforming rectangle
Description:
Wrought silver tea service consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl with lid, creamer and waste bowl; plain conical bodies with concave shoulders, short necks and applied, scalloped and gadrooned rims; seated on round scalloped and gadrooned bases with round gadrooned pedestals; cast, round domed, mushroom-cap (gadrooned) lids with cast flower finial bolted onto the top; scroll handles; engraved, "Jane Borrowe/ from/ Ann Colt" in script on the fronts; maker's mark on bases.
Credit Line:
Gift of Effie Beekman Borrowe
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
