Cream Pot
Dateca.1775-1795
Maker
Peter Young
MediumPewter
DimensionsHeight: 4 5/16"; Width: 4"; Maximum diameter; 2 7/16"
Credit LineGift of Scott and Debra Duncan
Object number2022-182
DescriptionPewter cream pot with a pear-shaped body topped by a scalloped rim and an everted pouring lip, standing on three cabriole legs with shell knees and feet. Broken scroll handle with a scrolled lower terminal.Label TextMade by a patriotic New York Yorker, pewterer Peter Young left the city for Albany when the British took the city in late 1776, never to return. A number of Young's vessels of this popular form are known to survive, and bear his usually worn mark at the bottom of the pot's interior.
MarkingsBottom inside of pot struck with "P Y" in relief within a rectangle (Laughlin-518), though now partially illegible.
