Coffee Service
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Coffee service consisting of tray (a), creamer (b), coffee pot (c) and sugar bowl (d). Service features repoussé and chased with flowers and tendrils, all parts engraved with interlaced monogram ECM. Tray (a) is rectangular-shaped with cut out handles. Engraved on bottom: “Presented by the Attachés of the Sheriff's Office of New York County during years 1902–1903 to Edward C. Moen Under Sheriff.” Creamer (b) with short body, curved handle, and tall neck forming open spout. Coffee pot (c) with tall neck, slender spot, and curved handle with ivory rings. Domed, hinged cover with finial. Sugar bowl (d) is squat bowl with scrolled foot and rim, curved handles.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Möen
- 1903
- Accession Number
- 1963-77-1-a/d
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- coffee service
- Type
- coffee service
- Medium
- silver, gold, ivory
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (tray (a)): 3 × 37 × 22.6 cm (1 3/16 × 14 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- H x W x D (creamer (b)): 12.1 × 10.2 × 7.3 cm (4 3/4 in. × 4 in. × 2 7/8 in.)
- H x W x D (coffee pot (c)): 27.5 × 19.2 × 11.8 cm (10 13/16 × 7 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
- H x W x D (sugar bowl (d)): 8 × 14.2 × 11.2 cm (3 1/8 × 5 9/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
- used in
- New York, New York, USA
- made in
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1963-77-1-a_d
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d0d1ce65-f8c4-466d-8fec-6b6981cfd2f6
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