Made by Thomas Fletcher / Presentation vase / 1824

Made by Thomas Fletcher
Presentation vase
1824
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Creator Name: Fletcher, Thomas
Creator Role: Maker
Creator Dates/Places: 1787-1866
Creator Name-CRT: Made by Thomas Fletcher
Creator Name: Gardiner, Sidney
Creator Dates/Places: 1785-1827
Creator Name-CRT: Made by Sidney Gardiner
Title: Presentation vase
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1824
Creation End Date: 1824
Creation Date: 1824
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Silver
Materials and Techniques: silver
Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (59.7 x 52.1 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1982.4
Credit Line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell and Rogers Funds; Anonymous and Robert G. Goelet Gifts; and Gifts of Fenton L. B. Brown and of the grandchildren of Mrs. Ranson Spaford Hooker, in her memory, by exchange, 1982
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
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This is one of a pair of vases given in 1825 by a group of New York merchants to Governor De Witt Clinton of New York for his role in promoting the construction of the Erie Canal. The vase is decorated with a combination of mythological elements and American motifs. On the front, the figures of Mercury (commerce) and Ceres (agriculture) flank a view of the canal's guard lock and basin at Albany; on the back, Hercules (strength) and Minerva (wisdom) are depicted with the aqueduct at Rochester and the falls of the Genesee River.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1982.4
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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