Collection Highlights
Batter pitcher
Date:
1798
Object Number:
1937.587
Medium:
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Powder Horn: Edward Darby (FW-39), with Carving Unfurled; verso: Sketch of a Powder Horn
Object Number:
1907.36.38
Date:
1891
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, graphite, and copper metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. ( 25.7 x 35.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: Rufus A. Grider
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left below powder horn in brown ink: "Rufus A Grider 1891."; inscribed and signed at upper right: "The EDWARD DARBY.", followed by a brief history of the horn and: "RA Grider"; at lower right in brown and black ink: "This HORN is owned by / Edwd. Darby of Worcester Mass. / a descendant of the first owner. / was drawn for me by / Miss MABEL E. DICKINSON of / Worcester Mass. in 1891."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
