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Lot Essay
This coffee pot was apparently made for the marriage of Elizabeth Hudson to Anthony Morris of Philadelphia in 1752.
Anthony Morris (1705/6-1780) was a third-generation partner in his family's brewing business, located on Dock and Pear Streets. In 1730, he married Sarah Powell and had seven children. After her death in 1751, he married Elizabeth Hudson, granddaughter of William Hudson, who was a member of the Colonial Assembly and Mayor of Philadelphia from 1725 to 1726. Elizabeth Hudson Morris was well known as a preacher in the Society of Friends.
The engraving under the base of the coffee pot, "E.Hudson to W. Morris," refers to Anthony and Elizabeth Morris's first son, William Morris. He married Sarah Warder in 1776. The monogram "WSM", for William and Sarah Morris, was probably engraved on the side of the coffeepot at that time, indicating that the coffee pot was a wedding present from Elizabeth Hudson.
In her Last Will & Testament, dated March 1, 1815, Sarah Warder Morris divided up her household belongings among her children and bequeathed "unto my Son Anthony my Silver Coffee Pott, One Silver Porringer & Six Silver Table Spoons." Anthony H. Morris (born 1781) died unmarried in 1863.
The tall proportion of this coffeepot is unique among the American examples. An English coffeepot of similar form by Phillips Garden of 1752 is illustrated in Christopher Hartop, The Hugenot Legacy, 1996, cat no. 82, illus. p. 333.
(Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, 1911; Robert Moon, The Morris Family of Philadelphia, 1898)
[CAPTION]Sarah Warder Morris, (photograph of an oil painting) Society Portrait Collection, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
[CAPTION]Silhouette of William Morris (1753-1807), Society Portrait Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
[CAPTION]Lot 320 Detail
[CAPTION] Detail of Sarah Warder Morris' will, dated 1815, bequeathing the silver coffee pot to her son Anthony (The Philadelphia Register of Wills, #0026)
Anthony Morris (1705/6-1780) was a third-generation partner in his family's brewing business, located on Dock and Pear Streets. In 1730, he married Sarah Powell and had seven children. After her death in 1751, he married Elizabeth Hudson, granddaughter of William Hudson, who was a member of the Colonial Assembly and Mayor of Philadelphia from 1725 to 1726. Elizabeth Hudson Morris was well known as a preacher in the Society of Friends.
The engraving under the base of the coffee pot, "E.Hudson to W. Morris," refers to Anthony and Elizabeth Morris's first son, William Morris. He married Sarah Warder in 1776. The monogram "WSM", for William and Sarah Morris, was probably engraved on the side of the coffeepot at that time, indicating that the coffee pot was a wedding present from Elizabeth Hudson.
In her Last Will & Testament, dated March 1, 1815, Sarah Warder Morris divided up her household belongings among her children and bequeathed "unto my Son Anthony my Silver Coffee Pott, One Silver Porringer & Six Silver Table Spoons." Anthony H. Morris (born 1781) died unmarried in 1863.
The tall proportion of this coffeepot is unique among the American examples. An English coffeepot of similar form by Phillips Garden of 1752 is illustrated in Christopher Hartop, The Hugenot Legacy, 1996, cat no. 82, illus. p. 333.
(Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, 1911; Robert Moon, The Morris Family of Philadelphia, 1898)
[CAPTION]Sarah Warder Morris, (photograph of an oil painting) Society Portrait Collection, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
[CAPTION]Silhouette of William Morris (1753-1807), Society Portrait Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
[CAPTION]Lot 320 Detail
[CAPTION] Detail of Sarah Warder Morris' will, dated 1815, bequeathing the silver coffee pot to her son Anthony (The Philadelphia Register of Wills, #0026)