Hyde & Goodrich
Cup

RetailerAmerican, active 1829–1861
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cup
Datec. 1845–1861
Retailed inNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions3 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (9.8 × 8.3 × 11.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Craig and Tarlton, Inc.
Object numberB.68.2
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Metals Study Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionIn the nineteenth century, the can’s name, style, method of production, and function changed altogether. Known as a cup, it was intended for children as a gift or an award. Rather than raised and planished to achieve a smooth surface, it was simply cut out of sheet silver and seamed together. Even the decorative band of anthemia forming the foot was mass-produced with a roller die.

Related examples:  Mackie, Bacot, and Mackie 1980, pp. 12–13, 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.
ProvenanceCraig and Tarlton, Inc. Raleigh, North Carolina; given to MFAH, 1968.
Exhibition History"Containers and Vessels," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 1989–January 1990, subsequent tour

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Engraved on side: SHD
On base: mark of Hyde and Goodrich [Mackie, Bacot, and Mackie 1980, p. 126, center column, sixth from top]

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