Set of coffee and tea service vessels, 1881

  • Gorham Manufacturing Co., American, established 1831

Sterling silver, parcel-gilt, ivory

  • various dimensions

Founders Society Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, General Endowment Fund and Henry Ford II Fund

V2014.14

Marked, within shaped punch marks: [Gorham Trade Marks] | STERLING | 1540 | N Lion passant, anchor, G

Inscribed, on bottom, in stylized script: C. U. D.

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Christian Herter and the Aesthetic Movement. Exh. cat., Washburn Gallery. New York, 1980. Reif, Rita. New York Times, May 11, 1980. The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World's Fairs 1876-1893. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Art. Detroit, 1983, cat. 100 (ill.).

Gorham Manufacturing Co., Set of coffee and tea service vessels, 1881, sterling silver, parcel-gilt, ivory. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, et al., V2014.14.