Mermaid Ewer
Mermaid Ewer
Place of OriginEngland
Date1616-1617
DimensionsH. 31.8 cm, max. w. 15.5 cm, max. depth 21.5 cm, w. of shell base: 13 cm
MediumSilver
ClassificationMetalwork
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number
1976.26
Not on View
"Treasures of Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 19, No. 2 and 3, 1976, p. 57. repr.
"La chronique des arts," Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 89, no. 1298, March 1977, repr. p. 46, no. 186.
"A Fortune in Fantasy," [Cincinnati] Art Academy News, vol. 4, no. 3, Nov. 1985, repr. p. 4.
Lynch, Betsey K., "The Taft Museum/Cincinnati: A Fortune in Fantasy," Dialogue, vol. 8, no. 6, Nov/Dec 1985, repr. p. 68.
Portico (Taft Museum), vol. 1, no. 1, Dec. 1985-Feb. 1986, repr. on cover.
Glanville, Philippa, Silver in England, London, 1987, p. 228, fig. 89.
Reich, Paula, Toledo Museum of Art: map and guide, London, Scala, 2005, p. 24, repr. (col.).
Exhibition HistoryTaft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1985-86.Provincial Museum Sterckshof-Zilvercentrum, Antwerp, Belgium. 1999.
1850-1851
![Ewer: Moses Striking the Rock [upper register]](/internal/media/dispatcher/54398/thumbnail)
about 1550-1600
Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart
1864, published 1868
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