Tray for teapot
- MAKER:
Retailer
Ford & Tupper ( American )
Manufacturer
William Gale & Son ( American, 1853 - 1867 )
- DATE:
- c. 1869
General Description
In the mid-19th century, the rediscovery of the United States' colonial past led to a vogue for replicas and adaptations of of 18th-century prototypes. This tray, attributed to William Gale and Son, is part of a nine piece tea and coffee service based on Neoclassical wares produced by Paul Revere, Jr. and his contemporaries a century earlier. The firm reinterpreted rather than imitated Revere's designs, maintaining yet elongating the basic fluted shapes and applying bright-cut engraved decoration more liberally.
Drawn from
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DMA unpublished material.
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Barbara McLean Ward & Gerald W. R. Ward. S_ilver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brasy Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University_ (Boston: D.R. Godine, 1979), 173.
Web Resources
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Read a biography of Paul Revere, Jr., the silversmith whose work inspired this William Gale & Son tea and coffee service. -
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Read more about Nineteenth-Century American Silver. -
Metropolitan Museum of Art
View a fluted and bright-cut teapot designed by by Paul Revere, Jr. -
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Read more about Nineteenth-Century American Silver.