593.1928: Pitcher

Identification and Creation

Object Number

593.1928

People

Designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
Manufactured by Shreve, Crump & Low, American

Title

Pitcher

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1892

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232119

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Sterling

Dimensions

36 x 13 cm (14 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Inscr, bottom: Conlegio Harvardiano/Nomine Caroli Wyman/Alumni (see file for date)/Donum Dedit Soror
  Mark: Shreve Crump & Low/Sterling
  Front: Seal of Harvard with banner below "Christo et Ecclesia"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the artist to Harvard College. [Presented to Harvard College in memory of Charles Wyman by his sister, Mrs Whitman, to be used at Commencement and other formal University occasions in Sanders Theatre on the speaker's desk.]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University; Gift of Sarah Wyman Whitman in the name of her brother, Charles Wyman, A.B. 1867, 1892

Object Number

593.1928

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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