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Tea set, c.1813 (silver)

IMAGE number
BST3702408
Image title
Tea set, c.1813 (silver)
Artist
Garrett, Philip (c.1780-1851) / American
Location
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium
silver
Date
c. 1813 AD (C19th AD)
Image description

Image shows teapot and covered sugar bowl; see also 195330 teapot: 20 x 22.3 x 12cm sugar bowl: 19.5 x 17.2 x 11.5cm This assembled tea set is a fine representation of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia silver by Philip Garrett, the partnership of Robert and William Wilson, and possibly an unidentified maker. It has gained added attention due to its association with the family of Mary Stevenson Cassatt, the famous American artist. Initially made for the artist’s grandmother, and presumably added to by her mother, the tea set became a treasured family heirloom. Two of the objects — the sugar bowl and a teapot — appear in The Tea, painted about 1879 – 80 and now in the Museum’s collection (fig. 5), as well as in works on paper by the artist. This assembled tea set includes a teapot, creamer, and sugar bowl marked by Philip Garrett of Philadelphia and engraved “M.S. 1813” for Mary Stevenson at the time of her marriage that year to Alexander Johnston. The “KKJ” added later stands for Katharine Kelso Johnston, m. Robert Simpson Cassatt in 1835. The waste bowl marked by the Wilsons (engraved “RSC,” possibly for Robert Simpson Cassatt) and presumably the two unmarked teapots were added to the set about 1835, when Katharine Kelso Johnston Cassatt inherited her maternal grandmother’s tea set and added these three pieces to it. All three of these later pieces may be by the partnership of Robert and William Wilson. The assembled set descended in the family until it was given by the descendants of the original owners and of the artist Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844 – 1926), a granddaughter of Mary Stevenson Johnston, in honor of Eugenia Cassatt Madeira.

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Photograph © 2024 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All rights reserved. / Anonymous gift in honor of Eugenia Cassatt Madeira / Bridgeman Images
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colour / object / nobody / tea / drink / photo / mary cassatt / cup / sugar bowl / impressionism / impressionist / heirloom / silverware / metalwork / neoclassical / sugarbowl / tea set / used by / owned by / neo classical / teacup / teapot / belonging to / neo-classical / elegant / tray
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