Object details
Accession number
M17e19
Creators
Full title
Pitcher
Creation Date
about 1821
Provenance
Gift from the Agricultural Society of New York to Isabella Stewart Gardner's grandmother Isabella Tod Stewart (1778-1848), 2 June 1821.
By descent to Isabella Stewart Gardner, about 1848.
Marks
Incised (side): Presented by the Agricultural Society of New York to Isabella Stewart, 2nd June 1821
Impressed (base): W. Thomson [marker's mark, William Thomson, New York (active 1809-1845)]
Incised (base): Stewart
Dimensions
11.9 x 15.5 cm (4 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Sterling silver
Web Commentary
The Agricultural Society of New York presented Isabella Tod Stewart this prize in honor of her horticultural accomplishments. Isabella Stewart Gardner adored her grandmother, a highly independent woman who successfully managed the family’s Long Island, New York, farm after her husband’s untimely death. Gardner displayed this cup in her museum alongside other family portraits and mementoes in the Short Gallery.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 123, 126. (as William Thomson (1809-1845), dated about 1821)
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