Littleton Holland

Coffee pot from coffee and tea service by Littleton Holland, c. 1800-05

Littleton Holland (1770-1846) was an American silversmith, active in Baltimore, Maryland.

Holland first appears in the 1802 Baltimore Directory as a jeweler located at 122 Baltimore Street, with Peter Little (1775-1830), a clock- and watchmaker, listed at the same address from 1799-1814. Holland was listed in the city directories on Baltimore Street until 1822. By 1833 he had relocated to 13 St. Paul's Street and seems to have conducted business there until his death in 1847. His works are collected in the Baltimore Museum of Art, Honolulu Museum of Art, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and Yale University Art Gallery.

Littleton Holland was born on 20 Jan 1770 in Freetown, Bristol County, MA, he married Hester Ringgold, daughter of William Ringgold of Kent County, MD on 15 Oct 1804. He died on 14 Apr 1846 in Baltimore City and is buried there in Green Mount Cemetery. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving as a Lieutenant in the 51st Infantry Regiment from Maryland, and fought at the Battle of North Point.

References

• "Sugar Basket by Littleton Holland", Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
• Silver in Maryland: Catalogue and Exhibition, Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, Museum and Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society, 1983, page 43.
• American Silversmiths and Their Marks, Volume 3, Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko, 1927, pages 73, 186.
• Kovels' American Silver Marks, Ralph M. Kovel, Crown Publishers, 1989, page 185.
• The Baltimore Directory and Register, for 1814-15 ..., James Lakin, J.C. O'Reilly, 1814, page 106.
• "Littleton Holland", Sterling Flatware Fashions.
• "A 12 1/2 inch ladle by Littleton Holland, Baltimore", Old South Silver.
• Three Centuries of Historic Silver: Loan Exhibitions Under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Mrs. Alfred Coxe Prime, Society, 1938, page 12.