Bowl
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Object Label
These silver objects, superb examples of the American Aesthetic Movement style, incorporate gold, copper, and brass details. This "mixed-metal" technique is borrowed directly from nineteenth-century Japanese metalwork. European guilds had guidelines prohibiting silversmiths from adding other metals onto silver. Here there were no such restrictions, so American silver makers specialized in the technique beginning in the 1870s.
Caption
Gorham Manufacturing Company 1865–1961. Bowl, ca. 1881. Silver, copper, brass, 3 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (7.6 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Hecht, by exchange, 88.117. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.117_bw.jpg)
Title
Bowl
Date
ca. 1881
Geography
Place manufactured: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Medium
Silver, copper, brass
Classification
Dimensions
3 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (7.6 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
On bottom: "1766 / [lion passant, anchor, gothic G] / STERLING / & OTHER METALS / N"
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Hecht, by exchange
Accession Number
88.117
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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