Tea Caddy
William Moulton, IV
1801–25
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
12.1 × 8.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
teaware
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105795
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William Moulton, IV · 1772–1861
**William Moulton IV (1772–1861)** was an American silversmith working in Newburyport, Massachusetts, continuing a distinguished family tradition that stretched back generations. Born into the Moulton line of craftsmen, he established his own shop on Merrimack Street and produced silverware from roughly 1795 until the mid-nineteenth century. His output included both domestic and ecclesiastical pie...