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Gorham Manufacturing Company, manufacturer

Coffeepot, ca. 1890

Description

Maker

  • Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1831-, American

Title

Coffeepot

Year

ca. 1890

Medium

Copper with silver and ivory

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • copper,
  • silver,
  • ivory

Dimensions

32.8 x 17.8 x 13 cm (12 15/16 x 7 x 5 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Marked: [anchor] / GORHAM CO.

Place

Providence; Rhode Island

Type

  • Metalwork

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

84.161

Projects & Publications

Publications

Gorham Silver Designing Brilliance 1850-1970

Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Notes

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Gorham Silver

May 3 - December 1, 2019

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

This hammered copper coffee pot follows a Turkish form while its applied silver designs recall Katsushika Hokusai’s Manga, a collection of the artist’s sketches of Japanese flora, fauna, and figures, known to be part of the Gorham Manufacturing Company’s design library. The array of exotic wares displayed at world’s fairs in the late 19th-century helped fuel the mainstream development of the American Aesthetic movement, which eschewed popular historicized revivalism in favor of Japanese and other design influences, and American Orientalism, a style reflecting a Western construct of the “Orient,” a nebulous geographic location including Moorish, Indian, Islamic, Near Eastern, and Persian lands.

The Gorham Collection

May 29 - August 29, 1992

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