Coffee Urn
Artist
Matthew Boulton
(English, 1728 - 1809)
Dateca. 1780
MediumSilverplate
DimensionsOverall: 16 1/2 inches (41.91 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard Shields and Mrs. Carolyn Shields Walker
Object number58-69/1 A,B
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DescriptionFlat bowl on column with spreading foot atop square tetrapod plinth with lion's paw feet emerging from acanthus flanked by scrolls and joined by gadroon about top edge. Spout, center, with shell handle, emerges from fluted patera. Two handles, acanthus-adorned. Cavetto above shoulder, gadroon around cornice, shell and acanthus at lateral centers. Domed lid with scroll and acanthus molding above edge, pineappel-knop handle. JMC (?) engraved in script on shoulder, front; MDS from EWS/1915 engraved on body, rear.ProvenanceMartha D. Shields (1874-1954), Kansas City, MO, by 1954;
By descent to Carolyn Shields Walker and Richard Shields, New York, 1954-1958;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
NOTES:
[1] This object was on loan from Shields' estate to the Nelson-Atkins from May 1954 until its gift in 1958.
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