Coffeepot
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Caption
Gorham Manufacturing Company 1865–1961. Coffeepot, ca. 1883. Silver and Ivory, 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (21.6 x 24.1 x 12.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, H. Randolph Lever Fund, 1992.209. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1992.209.jpg)
Title
Coffeepot
Date
ca. 1883
Geography
Place made: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Medium
Silver and Ivory
Classification
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (21.6 x 24.1 x 12.1 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
Engraved on bottom: (in script) "AR/1898" Struck on bottom: lion passant, anchor in shield, gothic G Sterling 1580/P
Credit Line
H. Randolph Lever Fund
Accession Number
1992.209
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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Jabez Gorham was fourteen years old when he became an apprentice. Seven years later, in 1813, he opened a jewelry business, and worked as a jeweler for the next several decades, eventually bringing his son into the business as well.John Gorham took over his father's company, which in 1865 was incorporated as Gorham Manufacturing Company. For about ten years the company had great success, using new technology to increase production, but in 1877 John went broke and had to resign. Although these initial difficulties set the company back, it was not long before Gorham became the second most well-known American silver manufacturer, after New York's Tiffany & Co. Gorham went on to great national and international success and acclaim through the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. In the 1960s, the company was sold and closed its doors.Do you know why the museum has these objects? Were they a gift?
Both of these silver pieces were acquired with the funds from the H. Randolph Lever Fund in the early 1990 and 1992 as indicated in their accession numbers.I'm not sure who owned them previously.
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