About This Artwork

Daniel Van Voorhis
American, 1751-1824

Sugar Basin and Cream Pot, 1788/1805

Silver
Cream pot: 19 x 6 x 6 (at base) cm (7 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Sugar basin: 24.1 x 10.2 (diam.) cm (9 1/2 x 4 in.)
Cream pot and sugar basin 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 H. Adams and Mrs. James C. Hutchins, Jr., 1950.1648a-c

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.