Collection Sugar Tongs

Sugar Tongs

Nathaniel Hurd American, 1729 or 1730 - 1777
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Sugar Tongs

between ca. 1745 and 1777

Nathaniel Hurd

1729 or 1730 - 1777

American

Unknown

Silver

Overall: 4 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 inches (11.4 × 3.8 × 1.3 cm)

Silver

American Art before 1950

Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

39.595

This work is in the public domain.

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Maker's mark, in cartouche: N. HURD

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1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA, 24, 2 (1944): p.20.

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Nathaniel Hurd, Sugar Tongs, between ca. 1745 and 1777, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 39.595.

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