Silversmiths often looked to the work of their predecessors and contemporaries as sources for their own design. This practice is evidenced by Krider’s tumbler with its distinctive foot and lip, which is the prototype for B.87.14.

Technical notes: The body is a seamed construction. The borders are handworked rather than die-rolled, which is more typical of this date. This tumbler and B.87.14 were studied using  nondestructive energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis; the results are on file at Bayou Bend. 

Related examples:  This is one of a pair; the mate remains in the donor's family.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff.  American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.