Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Pineapple Cup and Cover

ManufacturerRetailed by John Evans (German)

CultureGerman

Date1610-1611

MediumGilded silver

DimensionsOverall: 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds given in honor of Oriana and Arnold McKinnon by their children and with income generated by the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Decorative Arts Endowment

Object number95.22

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 204

DescriptionThis is a silver covered cup using a pineapple pattern. Although once attributed to the London silversmith John Evans of London, recent scholarship now credits this gilt silver covered cup in the form of a pineapple on a tree trunk to an unknown German silversmith. As the cup is repeatedly stamped with Evans’ maker’s mark, IE, he would have acted as the retailer of the cup rather than maker.

Label TextJohn Evans German Pineapple Cup and Cover, 1610 1611 Gilt silver Museum purchase with funds given in honor of Oriana and Arnold McKinnon by their children and with income generated by the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Decorative Arts Endowment 95.22 Exhibition History"Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," October 25,1996 - February 16, 1997 Published ReferencesPiers Percival Esq, "John Evans, Maker of Steeple Cups," _The Silver Society Journal_ (Autumn 2000): 128-133, fig. 5, 6. Type citation: Sotheby's, _Important English & Continental Silver, Including Property from the Estate of John P. Morgan II_ Sale N08118, auction cat., New York, NY, October 26, 2005, 31, cat. no. 201.