Samuel Kirk
Pitcher
1834-1844
Physical Qualities
Silver, 6 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (16.8 × 11.7 × 16.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.4
Unlike the surrounding vessels, this pitcher is quite large, suggesting that it was probably used for water rather than cream.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
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. 143, ill., cat. no. 168
Markings: Stamped "SAML KIRK" "SK" "11OZ" struck on the bottom
On View at the BMA
