About This Artwork

Daniel Van Voorhis
American, 1751-1824

Teapot, 1788/1805

Silver
15.9 x 28.6 x 10.8 cm (6 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Marked: "D. V. VOORHIS" (in rectangle), with two eagles within diamonds appearing above and below name; sugar basin and cream pot marked on underside: D. V. V. (in rectangle), with two eagles within diamonds on either side of initials.
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Cyrus Hall Adams and Mrs. James C. Hutchins, Jr., 1950.1584

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 112-113, no. 41.