About the Artwork
Teapot
ca. 1750
John Coburn
1724 - 1803
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 6 5/16 × 5 × 9 1/2 inches (16 × 12.7 × 24.1 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
34.3
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamped, on bottom: J. COBURN
Provenance
Herbert Lawton (Boston. Massachusetts, USA)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Tannahill, Robert H. Bulletin of the DIA, 14, 8 (May 1935).
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attributed to John Coburn, Teapot, ca. 1750, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 34.3.
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