Basin Maker: John Coney (American, 1655–1722)

1690–1700

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

H. 2 1/4 × Diam. 15 5/8 in. (5.7 × 39.7 cm), 40 oz., 18 dwt. (1272 g)

Credit Line

Josephine Setze Fund for the John Marshall Phillips Collection

Accession Number

2016.54.1

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
William Clark (d. 1710) and Mary Clark (née Mary Whittingham, later Mary Saltonstall, 1665–1729/30), Boston, ca. 1700; by inheritance to Mary Clark, Boston and New London, Conn., 1710; bequeathed to Old South Church, Boston, 1729/30; sold through Christie's, New York, to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., New Haven, Conn., 2016
Bibliography
  • Caryne Eskridge, "Gleaming Luxury and Flickering Light: Mary Saltonstall's Silver Basin," in "Recent Acquisitions," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017), 62, 64, fig. 1–3
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2016), 7
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 321
  • Jane Bentley Kolter, ed., Early American Silver and Its Makers (New York: Mayflower Books, 1979), 91
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, "The Nine Colonial Sugar Boxes," Antiques 85 (January 1964), 91
  • Masterpieces of American Silver: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 15–February 14, 1960, exh. cat. (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1960), 49–50, no. 26, ill
  • Exhibition of Silversmithing by John Coney, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1932), no. 10
  • Hermann F. Clarke, John Coney, Silversmith, 1655 - 1722 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932), 50–51, pl. IV, no. 1
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 268
  • E. Alfred Jones, "The Engraving of Arms on Old English Plate - I," Burlington Magazine CCXIX, no. XXXVI (June 1921), 268
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 224
  • E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1913), lxix, 58, pl. XXIII
  • George Munson Curtis and Florence Virginia Berger, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911), 29, no. 245
  • Hamilton Andrews Hill, History of Old South Church, 1699 - 1884 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1890), vol. 1, pp. 357 - 58
  • Hamilton Andrews Hill and George Frederick Bigelow, An Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church, Boston (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1883), 322 - 23
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

basins

Marks

"IC / + [within a heart]" stamped on the rim

Inscriptions

"the Gift of Madam Mary Saltonstall / to the South Church in Boston" engraved on the underside. "41 oz = 6 dut" lighted scratched into the underside

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