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Silver Bowl with Bright-Cut Engraving

Manufacturer William Garrett Forbes (American, 1751 - 1840)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1800-09

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 x 4 11/16 in. (16.8 x 11.9 cm)

InscribedOne oval is engraved with a script "M", the other is blank. Marked twice with "W. G. Forbes" in script within an irregular rectangle (mark listed and illustrated by Belden as variant "e"). Weight scratched into center of bottom as "11.10" meaning 11 ounces 10 pennyweight.

Credit LineGift of Joan Williams Graham

Object number2005.17.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Dining Room

DescriptionHemispheric bowl with convex band below rim, applied splayed stepped foot - both parts worked by raising. Engraved with bands of bright-cut ornament: a broad zigzag border at the rim, foliate designs on the convex band, and a narrow zigzag border immediately below. Two bright-cut oval reserves flanked by cornucopias (located on opposite sides of the body).

ProvenanceDescended through the Myers family: Samuel Myers and Louisa Marx Myers to their daughter, Virginia Myers McBlair; Virginia Myers McBlair to Joan Williams Graham; Gift of Joan Williams Graham to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005. Published ReferencesMalcolm H. Stern, _Americans of Jewish Descent: A Compendium of Genealogy_ (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1960), 110, 132, 157. Louise Conway Belden, _Marks of American Silversmiths in Ineson-Bissel Collection_, (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University of Virginia Press in conjunction with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1980), 173. Deborah Dependahl Waters, et al., _Elegant Plate: Three Centuries of Precious Metals in New York City_ Vol. II (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 2000), # 165, 324-326. Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, _American Silver: Garven and Other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery_ (New Haven, Published for the Yale University Art Gallery, by the Yale University Press, 1970), # 698, 699, 705, 125-126, 131. Rachel B. Crawford, "The Forbes Family of Silversmiths" _The Magazine Antiques_ 107, no.4 (April 1975): 730-732 Edith Gaines, "The Forbes Family, New York Silversmiths, "_The Magazine Antiques_ 103, no. 3 (March 1973): 561-563.