About the Artwork
Teapot
between 1730 and 1740
Peter David
1707-1755
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 6 7/8 × 8 1/4 × 5 inches (17.5 × 21 × 12.7 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
63.24
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved in script, side of pot: EBW
Stamped three times, on the bottom: P. David
Provenance
1963-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1965, cat. 275 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Peter David, Teapot, between 1730 and 1740, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 63.24.
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