This can’s rotund body, attenuated contour, and outward flaring lip present a mature expression of the Late Baroque form. Referred to as a pint can, it was more common than the previous can of smaller capacity (see B.69.99). Later Rococo examples retained the pear shape of the Late Baroque but often had a C-scrolled handle, on occasion further embellished with an acanthus leaf grip.

Technical notes: The body is raised, the foot and vented handle are cast. The handle is attached to a small disk above the base molding. The bottom's center point may be filled in. 

Related examples: A spoon marked by Jacob Hurd’s shop and engraved with the same crest, inscribed "Joshua Green,” is in Buhler 1972, vol. 1, p. 204, no. 166. A can and a pair of casters marked by Joseph Edwards, Jr., are also ornamented with this crest and originally belonged to Joshua and Hannah Green, in Buhler 1972, vol. 2, pp. 473–74, no. 424; Buhler and Hood 1970, vol. 1, pp. 205–6, no. 272. Nathaniel Hurd engraved a heraldic bookplate for Francis Green, in French 1939, pp. 106–7.

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.