Richard Rutter
Cream Pot
1789-1799
Physical Qualities
Silver, 7 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 4 7/8 in. (18.7 × 6.7 × 12.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1960.41.35
Richard Rutter’s helmet-shaped cream pot is considerably more refined than the one by John Chalmers [#5].
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1960; Philip B. Perlman (1890-1960), Baltimore, MD
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 73, ill.
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds, "Silver in Maryland", Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983. p.184, ill.
Markings: maker's stamp on side of base: "rutter"
On View at the BMA
