Creamer
Designer
Peter Bateman
(English, 1740 - 1825)
Designer
William Bateman
(English, 18th century)
Date1811
MediumSterling silver
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/8 × 5 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (11.11 × 13.34 × 7.94 cm)
Credit LineGift given in memory of Muriel (Hobson) Clarke
Object number2023.38.3
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DescriptionA tea service consisting of a tea pot, sugar bowl, and creamer, all with horizontal banded areas of incised foliate decoration, including a Vitruvian leaf pattern and with bun feet; the sugar bowl and creamer with applied silver handles, the tea pot with an applied wooden handle and applied wooden finial in the shape of an acorn.ProvenanceBy family descent from C. & E. Wilkinson to great-granddaughter Muriel Hobson Clarke (1908-2006), Topeka, Kansas; [1]
By inheritance to her granddaughter, Bonnie Frederick, Lenexa, Kansas, 2006; [2]
Her gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2023
[1. ] Notes by Muriel (Hobson) Clarke, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Curatorial Files
[2.] Verbal communication from Bonnie Frederick to William Keyse Rudolph, 30 August 2023
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