Sugar tongs

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Sugar tongs

Entry/Object ID

VC.75.9

Description

Silver sugar tongs: Bow form with shanks tapering into acorn tips; bright-cut engraving of oval medallion enclosing script initials "CC" with pendant garlands from either pointed end.

Collection

Van Cortlandt Manor Object Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Ephraim Brasher

Attribution

Maker

Date made

circa 1795

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

Mark: "EB" in relief within impressed rectangle inside shank Script initials: "CC"

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Width

2-3/8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)

Dimension Description

Overall

Width

7-1/8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)

Material

silver

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Catherine Clinton Taylor Van Cortlandt

Notes

Former owner

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Ephraim Brasher (1744-1810) is famous as the minter of the so-called "Brasher doubloon." Other possible identities for EB include E. Baker of New York (1740-1790) for whom no EB mark is recorded and Ezekiel Burr of Providence, Rhode Island (1746-1846).

Note Type

General Note

Note

Van Cortlandt family possession

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 14B