Object Number 2011.0023.009

Object Name

Pitcher (Cream or milk pitcher or pot)

Category

Metals

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Callie Huger Efird through the High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Creator (Role)

Krider & Biddle (Manufacturer)

Geroge A. Sharpe (Retailer)

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1864-1872

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Mark; Underside, center; "K B" divided by a crossed hammer and chisel
2. Mark; Underside, center; "925" stamped incuse
3. Mark; Underside, center; "GEO. SHARPE JR", stamped incuse

Materials

Silver

Techniques

Wrought

Dimensions (inches)

6.7 (H) , 4 (W) , 5.6 (Weight)

Dimensions (centimeters)

17.1 (H) , 10.2 (W) , 159 (Weight)

Object Description

Web - 01/28/2016

This silver milk or cream pitcher is wrought in a vase shape with a broad pouring spout and generous body that tapers toward its circular, spun pedestal base. A rounded conforming silver rim is applied to reinforce the exterior of the pitcher's opening. The body is ornamented with a delicate engraved and bright-cut circular reserve with outlined borders and four clusters of three lobed shapes enclosing dotted lines placed at each of the cardinal directions. No engraved initials are visible. The Philadelphia manufacturers, Krider & Biddle, supplied this and other teawares to jeweler and retailer George A. Sharpe, Jr. Sharpe worked in several southern locations, and kept a jewelry shop in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1870s.