Samuel Hamlin
Basin

MakerAmerican, 1746–1801
MakerAmerican, 1774–1864, active 1801–1856
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Basin
Datec. 1767–1856
Possible placeProvidence, Rhode Island, United States
Possible placeHartford, Connecticut, United States
Possible placeMiddletown, Connecticut, United States
MediumPewter
Dimensions2 1/16 × 7 3/4 in. diameter (5.2 × 19.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.60.83
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Basins with a diameter of six to eight inches were intended for food and drink. Contemporary references to “breakfast bowls” and “mess bowls” in all likelihood refer to this size basin. Alternatively they may have also been used as slop bowls, for disposing of cold tea and dregs.

Related examples: Hood 1965, p. 15, no. 22; Fairbanks 1974, pp. 55, no, no. 215; Montgomery 1978, p. 144, no. 8–11; Barquist 1985, p. 39, no. 226.

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[Thomas D. and Constance R. Williams, Litchfield, Connecticut]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1960; given to MFAH.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Inside bottom: mark of Samuel Hamlin [Laughlin 1940, vol. I, pl. XLIX, no. 330a]

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