About the Artwork
Cann
between 1760 and 1770
Ephraim Brasher
1744-1810
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 3 3/4 inches (9.5 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
62.151
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved, on the side: C M W
Stamped, on the bottom, each in a rectangle: BRASHER and N York [Maker's mark for artist can also be EB]
Provenance
1962-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Grigaut, Paul L. "Early American Silver in the Detroit Institute of Arts." The Connoisseur (June 1964): pp. 118-119.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Ephraim Brasher, Cann, between 1760 and 1770, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 62.151.
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