George Washington Riggs
Beaker
1813
Physical Qualities
Silver, 3 3/8 x 3 x 3 in. (8.6 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.125
Beakers were used in both churches and private dwellings. This example was made by George W. Riggs after he moved from Georgetown (presentday Washington, DC) to Baltimore around 1810. Baltimore City assay marks date the beaker precisely to 1814.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
A Century of Alexandria, District of Columbia and Georgetown Silver, 1750-1850, cat. no. 88
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 124, ill.
Pleasants and Sill, p. 174
Inscribed: Engraved monogram "CCS" on the side
Markings: stamped RIGGS, Maryland crest, B scratched VW 225
On View at the BMA
