Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Seamed, octagonal or panel-sided, waisted or incurved cup on a flared conforming pedestal base, decorated with stamped and engraved ruffled C scrolls forming a reserve at front engraved in script "Annette." S scroll handle has acanthus leaves on top and near the lower split bud terminal; applied double-reeded rim and bottom edge of base; rounded bottom is part of body. Bottom underside struck with two marks above and below centerpoint, "G. BOYCE" and "N. YORK", both in raised serif letters in rectangles.
label: Description
content: Maker is Gerardus Boyce (1795-1880) of New York, NY; working alone, circa 1820-1825 and 1835-1857, and in partnership with Elisha Jones as Boyce & Jones, 1825-1829.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Baby
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Christening
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
label: Subject
content: Girls
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Misses Long
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006973
label: catalog number
content: 006973
label: accession number
content: 113420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 12.7 cm x 12.065 cm x 7.9375 cm