Punch Bowl

Punch Bowl

ca. 1898

American

A punch bowl of the 19th century, this work is known as Martelé, a French word for hand-hammered, which was the name given to the line of one-of-a-kind silver unveiled by Gorham in New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1897. Works in this line were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris in 1900, where art nouveau was introduced to the world.

Silver

Approx. height: 6 x 10 in. (15.2 x 25.4cm)

Gift of Ruth J. Nutt

2014.24.22

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

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