Fork, mid-18th century

  • Joseph Goldthwaite, American, 1706-1780

Silver

  • Overall: 7 5/8 inches (19.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

54.281

Department

American Art before 1950

Maker's mark stamped, on reverse: IG [with crown overhead]

Inscribed, on the reverse: E.C.H.

private collection (South America). 1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA, 34, 1 (1954-55): p. 19 (ill.).

Joseph Goldthwaite, Fork, mid-18th century, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 54.281.