Gallery 387, American Art, third floor
Main Building
Gallery 387, American Art, third floor
Main Building
The coats of arms engraved on each vessel are those of the Lloyd family: Lloyd impaling Rousby. The Rococo-style decoration---consisting of spiral fluting and asymmetrical floral, foliate, and scroll motifs---represents the height of 1750s and 1760s London fashion. This style of ornamentation is echoed in the carved decoration on the furniture John and Elizabeth Cadwalader commissioned in 1770-71 for their Second Street town house in Philadelphia.
Gallery 387, American Art, third floor
| Title: | Coffeepot |
| Date: | 1763 |
| Artist: | Made by Partnership of Thomas Whipham II and Charles Wright, London (1757–1775) |
| Medium: | Silver |
| Dimensions: | 14 1/2 x 11 x 5 1/4 inches (36.8 x 27.9 x 13.3 cm) |
| Classification: | Containers |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1988 |
| Accession Number: | 1988-35-1a,b |
| Geography: | Made in London, England, Europe |
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Gallery 387, American Art, third floor
Main Building