The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 2, 2023

Cream Jug

late 1700s - early 1800s

attributed to John D. Germon

(American)

America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, late 18th-early 19th Century

Silver

With handle: 16.5 x 11.5 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Gift of J. H. Wade 1919.865

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

engraved in bright-cut script on side of body, to left of handle: DEH.

Provenance
(Tiffany and Company); J. H. Wade.
Citations
"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 10 (1919): 162. Mentioned: p. 162 www.jstor.org
L. P. "Early American Silver." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 4 (1920): 44-54. Reproduced: p. 53; Mentioned: p. 44 www.jstor.org
Johnston, Phillip M. Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 57
Exhibition history

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1919.865