Object details
Accession number
M17e21
Creators
Full title
Tea Mug
Creation Date
about 1828
Provenance
Gift from the Agricultural Society of New York to Isabella Stewart Gardner's grandmother Isabella Tod Stewart (1778-1848), 1828.
By descent to Isabella Stewart Gardner, probably about 1848.
Marks
Incised (side): Presented by the Agricultural Society of N. York to Mrs. Steward (sic), 1828
Impressed (base): W. Thompson [marker's mark, William Thomson, New York (active 1809-1845)]
Dimensions
9.5 x 8.3 cm (3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Silver
Web Commentary
The Agricultural Society of New York presented Isabella Tod Stewart this prize in honor of her horticultural accomplishments in 1828. 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 later placed 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)
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