Details
| Artist | Fletcher and Gardiner, American, active 1814 - 1838 |
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| Date | ca. 1815 |
| Medium | silver and ebony |
| Dimensions | Overall: 8 1/8 × 6 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (20.6 × 15.9 × 29.5 cm) |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase, Lucy Waterman American Art Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad H. Smith Memorial Fund, Mrs. Charles Theron Van Dusen Fund; and gifts from Robert Kingsbury, Euphemia Holden, Mrs. Albert de Salle, City of Detroit, Detroit Historical Commission, American Art Archives by exchange |
| Accession Number | 2002.136.1 |
| Department | American Art before 1950 |
| On View | American W271, Level 2 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Marks | Stamped: 41 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 03 |
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| Inscriptions | Engraved: a sheild decoarted with three birds with feather plumes and gazelles| MY WORD IS MY BOND |
Provenance
2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA, 81, 1-2 (2007): pp. 12-13, 69.
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, pp. 106–108, fig. 4 (ill.).
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, pp. 106–108, fig. 4 (ill.).
