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Wine pot by Dominick & Haff
Artist
Dominick & Haff
Date
1882
Medium
Silver, silver-gilt
Dimensions
6 × 6 1/8 × 3 7/8 in., 14 oz. 19 dwt. (15.2 × 15.6 × 9.8 cm, 465.1g)
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Gallery
706
Location
706
Credit
Gift of Martha J. Fleischman, in memory of Michael K. Brown, 2014

Description

Overview Wine pot Dominick & Haff American 1882 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 706 Dominck & Haff produced a diverse range of magnificently crafted silver and was an influential and defining force in the American silver industry. The exquisite ornament on this wine pot, in the form of a Greek askos, reveals the hand of a masterful chaser, likely the same craftsman who chased the silver and silver-gilt tureen retailed by Shreve, Crump and Low (2011.115). Exceptional among Dominick & Haff’s oeuvre, the small group of objects associated with this virtuosic chaser are some of the finest examples of American Aesthetic movement silver known.