Contemporary sources refer to this form as a can, mug, or pot. The earliest examples were patterned after eighteenth-century silver, yet unlike its precious counterpart, in pewter this shape persisted well into the nineteenth century. Thomas Danforth, II’s estate inventory suggests the extent of an American shop’s production, attesting that he owned outright or in partnership with Jacob Whitmore more than 260 pounds of molds.

Related examples: Barquist 1985, p. 34, no. 217.

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.