About the Artwork
Sugar Bowl with Cover
between 1770 and 1780
John Burt Lyng
active 1761 - 1785
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 6 × 4 5/8 inches (15.2 × 11.7 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
64.115
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Stamped, on the bottom of the bowl: John Burt Lyng N York. [Mark may be noted without the first name; Lyng only typically engraved inside of a rectangle/square or decorative cartouche. The word N York may have a pellet or hyphen in-between the first and second word]
Engraved, inside the rim of base: P X F
Provenance
1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John Burt Lyng, Sugar Bowl with Cover, between 1770 and 1780, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 64.115.
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