Patch Box Maker: John Dixwell (American, 1680–1725)

1720–25

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

1 1/4 × 1 7/8 × 3/8 in. (3.18 × 4.76 × 0.95 cm, 13.8 g)

Credit Line

Gift of M. C. Edwards

Accession Number

1980.22a-b

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Sarah Pierpont Edwards (1710–1758), New Haven, Conn.; by descent in her family to Miss M. C. Edwards, New Canaan, Conn.; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1980
Bibliography
  • Jeannine Falino and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., New England Silver and Silversmithing 1620-1815 (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 2001), 52–53, fig. 5
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 380
  • "Acquisitions 1980," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 2 (Winter 1982), 67
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical

Marks

"ID" in relief within an oval on underside of box

Inscriptions

"S. Pierpont" engraved on underside; scratches with various illegible letters on interior surfaces, one of which is an "N" in the style contemporary to the box's making

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