About the Artwork
Coffee Pot
between ca. 1725 and 1745
John Burt
1692 - 1746
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 9 3/4 × 5 3/8 × 8 3/4 inches (24.8 × 13.7 × 22.2 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
37.190
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved, on side: crest
Maker's mark, stamped on the cover, near the handle below the rim, and four times on the bottom. Many marks are capital letters IB with a pellet in-between initials; initials sometimes noted under a crown and in a shield.
Provenance
David and Mary Grimm (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Carl Minton
Mrs. Carl Minton, nee Anita Eunice Small (later Mrs. Hamilton Pell). 1937-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hellman, Mimi. “Making Coffee at Home in America: Episodes in the Cultural History of Design.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You with Mimi Hellman and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 103 (fig. 2).
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John Burt, Coffee Pot, between ca. 1725 and 1745, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 37.190.
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