Object Details
- Description
- Seamed cylindrical child's cup or mug with rococo-style repousse chased scrolls and flowers springing from a reserve at front bearing the engraved inscription "Jennie Griswold / from / her Mother. / May 21\st.. 1859."; ogival arches with flowers at rim and base. Spurred broken-scroll handle; applied molded rim and foot ring, both with beading; and flat bottom set in. Bottom underside struck once with a partially legible, vertically-oriented incuse mark "T / E / [& / Co]" over a circle and a diamond or lozenge containing "1 / 5 7 / 8"; "12" stamped sideways at left.
- Maker is Theodore Evans & Co. (Theodore Evans and John Cook) of New York, NY, circa 1855-1865.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1857
- presentation date
- 1859-05-21
- Credit Line
- Miss Jennie M. Griswold
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 in; 10.16 cm x 10.795 cm x 7.62 cm
- Object Name
- mug
