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Cream Pot

Date1820-1835

Marked by Greenberry Gaither (1792 - 1838)

OriginAmerica, District of Columbia, Washington

MediumSilver

DimensionsOH: 6 ½”; OW: 5 5/8”; OD: 3 11/16”

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, Robert F. Grossman

Object number2021-34

DescriptionSilver cream pot: Circular stepped foot with guilloche chasing on rim and narrow star pattern milled band at juncture to globular body. Guilloche milled band at juncture to incurving neck, with everted pouring lip bordered by narrow star pattern milled banding. Cast C-scroll handle with bifurcated lower terminal.
Label TextGreenberry Gaither worked in Washington, D.C. between about 1815 and 1838. Few pieces of hollowware marked by this silversmith are known today; this is the first example to enter the Colonial Williamsburg collection.
InscribedEngraved on body under lip in sprigged script “CMB”
MarkingsMarked in relief on base “G GAITHER” in block letters; mark is struck over one or possibly two other marks [one of which might be “BURNETT”]