About the Artwork
Spice Dredger
1745
Jacob Hurd
1702 or 1703 - 1758
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 3 7/8 × 2 7/8 × 2 inches (9.8 × 7.3 × 5.1 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
64.199
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved, on bottom: BEH
Maker's mark stamped, on bottom, twice: HURD
Provenance
1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jacob Hurd, Spice Dredger, 1745, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 64.199.
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