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Object Label

VESSELS FOR FASHIONABLE BEVERAGES IN BRITISH AMERICA
As in Spanish America, the consumption of fashionable beverages—tea, coffee, and chocolate—became a fundamental part of socializing in the increasingly prosperous British American colonies. The serving of these exotic beverages required new furniture types such as the tea table (on view nearby), as well as artifacts made of silver or fine pottery such as teapots, coffeepots, chocolate pots, creamers, sugar bowls, flatware, and cups and saucers.


VAJILLA PARA LAS BEBIDAS DE MODA EN LA AMÉRICA BRITÁNICA
Así como en Hispanoamérica, el consumo de las bebidas de moda—té, café y chocolate—se convirtió en una parte fundamental de la vida social de las cada vez más prósperas colonias británicoamericanas. Para servir estas bebidas exóticas se necesitaban nuevos tipos de muebles como la mesa de té (en exposición) y utensilios hechos de cerámica fina o plata como teteras, cafeteras, jarras de chocolate, jarras para crema, azucareros, cubiertos, tazas y platillos.

Caption

Myer Myers American, 1723–1795. Creamer, ca. 1760. Silver, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 8.9 x 11.4cm). Brooklyn Museum, H. Randolph Lever Fund, 73.47. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 73.47_front_SL4.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Creamer

Date

ca. 1760

Medium

Silver

Classification

Food/Drink

Dimensions

5 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 8.9 x 11.4cm)

Signatures

no signature

Inscriptions

no inscriptions

Markings

On center of base in small punch: MM

Credit Line

H. Randolph Lever Fund

Accession Number

73.47

Rights

Creative Commons-BY

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