Hyde & Goodrich
Cream Pitcher

RetailerAmerican, active 1829–1861
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cream Pitcher
Datec. 1857–1860
Made inBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Retailed inNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions5 × 2 3/16 × 4 3/4 in. (12.7 × 5.6 × 12.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Renaud, Jr.
Object numberB.89.9.2
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Metals Study Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

The complexities of this design’s origin have yet to be unraveled. While both the sugar bowl and creamer are stamped by the Boston silversmiths Vincent Laforme & Brother, they are closely related in design to a New York service by John Chandler Moore for Tiffany, Young & Ellis. The latter, like the Bayou Bend silver, also possesses a Louisiana provenance.

Technical notes: Both vessels are assembled from sheet silver. The finial of the sugar bowl is vented and soldered on. There is no indication that the cartouche of either vessel was ever engraved.  

Related examples: Originally part of a more extensive service that was later dispersed among the Labatt descendants. For related silver by John Chandler Moore for Tiffany, Young & Ellis, see Mackie, Bacot, and Mackie 1980, pp. 26–27, no. 29; Antiques 130 (October 1986), p. 702.

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.


ProvenanceElizabeth (1828–1919) and David Cohen Labatt (1826–1893), New Orleans, m. 1849; inherited by their daughter Caroline (Mrs. Orlando Phelps, 1852–1941); inherited by her daughter Almira Louise (Mrs. Fred Renaud, Sr.), Houston; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Renaud, Jr., Houston; given to MFAH, 1989.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Incuse on base: HYDE & GOODRICH. / NEW ORLEANS. LA. / PURE COIN / old English L [Laforme], and an eagle

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