A RARE SET OF FOUR SILVER NESTING BEAKERS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST

细节

A RARE SET OF FOUR SILVER NESTING BEAKERS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST
MAKER'S MARK OF LEWIS FUETER, NEW YORK, 1775-1780

In slightly graduated sizes; each tapering cylindrical, with flaring rim, engraved on the front with a crest, each marked under base
from 4in. to 4 3/16in. high
(22oz. 10dwt.)

The crest is that of Musgrave (5)

来源

Sir Thomas Musgrave (1737-1812), lieutenant-general, the last British Commandant of New York
Sotheby's, New York, June 28, 1984, lot 82
Arthur and Rosalinde Gilbert Collection

出版

Timothy B. Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, 1988, fig. 171, pp. 634-636

展览

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984-1995

拍品专文

Thomas Musgrave apparently commissioned these campaign beakers while he was based in New York from 1776 to 1783. His most distinguished action in the Colonies was his defense of Germantown, one of Lord Cornwallis's outposts, against the Revolutionary forces in 1777. In Germantown, he took occupation of the great Chew family house, Cliveden, and from there fended off numerous attacks until reinforcements arrived and finally defeated the Americans. For this action he was awarded a silver medal which depicts Cliveden in the background. Cliveden also appears in the background of his portrait by L. Abbott, painted in 1786, and in the engraving by G.S. Facius of 1797 (a framed example accompanies the lot).

photo caption for portrait: Thomas Musgrave at Germantown in 1777, in front of Cliveden, the Chew family house which served as his fortress in the Battle of Germantown. Engraving by G.S. Facius, 1797, after Lemuel-Francis Abbott's portrait of 1786. This engraving accompanies the lot