Details
A SET OF TWELVE GOLD TEASPOONS
MAKER'S MARK OF GARNER & WINCHESTER, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, CIRCA 1850
Each with shaped fiddle stem engraved with script initials HM, with pointed oval bowls, each marked--5 3/8in. long
(6 oz.) (12)
Provenance
These spoons bear the initials HM, for Henrietta Hunt Morgan of Lexington, Kentucky, who received the gold for these spoons from here son, Calvin Morgan, a miner in the California gold rush. Henrietta Morgan's other son, John Hunt Morgan, was a well-known Confederate General, who led cavalry raids inot Ohio and Indiana during the Civil War. The spoons descended to John Hunt Morgan II, son of Calvin Morgan.
Literature
James Biddle, American Art from American Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963, fig. 132, p. 63.
Peter J. Bohan, ed., American Gold, 1700-1860, Yale University Art Gallery, 1963, no. 33, p. 31.
David B. Warren, Southern Silver, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1968, no. E-5-A.
Exhibited
Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Art from American Collections, 1963
Yale University Art Gallery, American Gold, 1963
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Southern Silver, 1968
