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Tea and Coffee Service

A work made of silver.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of silver.

Date:

1840–68

Artist:

Samuel Kirk & Son
American, 1846–1861
Samuel Kirk & Sons
American, 1861–1868
Baltimore

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Samuel Kirk & Son (Baltimore, Md.)

Title

Tea and Coffee Service

Place

Baltimore (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1840–1868

Medium

Silver

Inscriptions

Marked on bottom of coffee pot, teapot, and sugar basin: S. Kirk & Son / 110 Marked on bottom of milk pot and waste bowl of incised roman capitals S. Kirk & Son / 11 OZ Engraved later on body of each piece: JIMT

Dimensions

Coffee pot: 32.7 × 13.7 cm (12 7/8 × 5 3/8 in.), 1428.9 g; tea pot: 21 × 12.9 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.), 972.3 g; sugar bowl: 17.8 × 12.4 cm (7 × 4 7/8 in.), 696 g; milk pot: 20 × 9.2 cm (7 7/8 × 3 5/8 in.), 396.2 g; waste bowl: 14.6 × 6 cm (5 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.), 356.4 g

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. William B. McIlvaine and Mr. and Mrs. William B. McIlvaine Jr. in memory of his grandfather and grandmother

Reference Number

1983.33.1-5

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