Samuel Taylor
Tea Canister
1748-1749
Physical Qualities
Sterling silver, 5 7/16 x 3 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
1985.115
Like the sugar bowl in the adjacent case, these tea canisters, made for Samuel Galloway and his wife, Anne Chew Galloway, are engraved with the Arms of Galloway impaling Chew for. Between 1755 and 1756 Galloway built a house for his wife on the West River in Anne Arundel County, and named it Tulip Hill after a nearby grove of tulip poplars. Active in horseracing, Galloway owned nearly 30 horses.
Markings: On base: lion stamp, lion with crown stamp, "O" stamp, "SG" stamp
On View at the BMA
