Teapot

1740–55

Jacob Hurd
American, 1702/03–1758
Boston

The round shape of this teapot was taken from earlier Chinese and English ceramic prototypes. The design was particularly popular in the Boston area, and several similar examples by Jacob Hurd are known today. The engraved foliage, mask, and scrollwork around the lid, although extremely restrained in execution, are typical of his work.

Status: On View, Gallery 165
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jacob Hurd
Title: Teapot
Place: Boston (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. 1740–1755
Medium: Silver and walnut
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom, in conforming rectangle: Hurd Engraved on top of handle: T / C+S
Dimensions: 12.7 × 22.9 × 10.2 cm (5 5/8 × 9 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Jamee J. and Marshall Field Fund
Reference Number: 1991.110
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Hollis French, “Jacob Hurd and his Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin: Silversmiths, 1702–1781” (New York: Riverside Press, 1939) cat. 278, 48.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 74–5, cat. 21 (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. 21 (ill.).

Captain Christopher Tilden (1711-1755) and Sarah Parrott Tilden (born 1717; m. 1740), Boston. Mrs. J. E. Muggah, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, by 1939. With Fireston and Parson, Boston, by 1991; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago 1991.

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