Jacob Whitmore
Cann

MakerAmerican, 1736–1825
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cann
Datec. 1758–1790
Made inMiddletown, Connecticut, United States
MediumPewter
Dimensions5 7/8 × 4 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (14.9 × 12.1 × 17.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.64.27
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Kilroy Center
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Expensive molds were required for casting pewter. As a consequence the forms evolved gradually, if at all. Whitmore and Thomas Danforth, II, jointly owned a number of molds, a practical, albeit rarely documented, arrangement. Danforth bequeathed his interest to his oldest sons, Thomas, III, and Joseph. The close similarity between Whitmore's and the Danforths’ cans (see, for example, B.69.25, B.60.65) may be explained by the fact that as many as four different pewterers could have used these molds.

Related examples: Hood 1965, p. 14, no. 10.

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.


Provenance[Carl and Celia Jacobs, Deep River, Connecticut]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1964; given to MFAH.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Inside bottom: mark of Jaboc Whitmore, Middletown, Connecticut, 1758–1790 [Laughlin 1940, vol. I, pl. LIV no. 382]

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