Tea and Coffee Service

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1846–68

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Samuel Kirk & Son (Maker)
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. 1846–1868
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 7/16 in.); Teapot: 21 × 12.9 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sugar: 17.8 × 12.4 cm (7 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Milk pot: 20 × 9.2 cm (7 7/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Waste bowl: 14.6 × 6 cm (5 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
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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Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 51 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 51 (ill.).

Glencoe, Chicago Botanic Garden, The Rose in Art, Sept. 13–Oct. 25, 1985, no cat.

Given to Julia Murray LeMoyne (born 1864) by her father, John Valcoulon LeMoyne (1828-1918), on the occasion of her marriage to William Brown McIlvaine (died 1943), Oct. 15, 1891; by descent to William Brown McIlvaine (1900-1977) and his wife; to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William B. McIlvaine, Jr., Chicago, by 1983; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

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