About the Artwork
Sugar Urn
ca. 1790
Benjamin Pierpont
1730-1797
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 10 1/4 × 4 3/8 inches (26 × 11.1 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill
58.335
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on base: B. Pierpont [typically in a rectangle. Initial and surname sometimes separated by a pellet or a small star-like (maybe sun) symbol]
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Provenance
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA, 42, 2 (1962-63): p. 31-32 (ill.).
Grigaut, Paul L. "Early American Silver in the Detroit Institute of Arts." The Connoisseur (June 1964): pp. 118-119.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Benjamin Pierpont, Sugar Urn, ca. 1790, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill, 58.335.
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