Spring 2008 Volume 104 Issue 2 : letters
Re: "Buried Treasures," Winter 2007
Matthew’s other mug [Warwick Vase replica, p. 15] is not a spittoon and was probably meant to hold a plant. Certainly, Matthew Vassar would not have a spittoon featured so prominently in his portrait. The Warwick Vase has been uppermost in my mind lately. The Warwick Vase was design inspiration for two large, stunning, silver vases (with added lids) presented in 1824 to Dewitt Clinton upon completion of the Erie Canal. They belong to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (where I have been a volunteer guide for 39 years!) and are featured in the current American Wing exhibit Fletcher & Gardiner: Silversmiths to the Nation.
Kay Olson Freeman ’59
New York, New York