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

ca. 1685

American Decorative Arts

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

Sliver

Dimensions

7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Children of Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan

Accession Number

1935.154

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Flatware

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Possibly originally owned by Robert and Sarah Stone; Francis Shaw family, Salem, MA; Hollis French, Boston, MA; gift in 1935 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 1, p. 31, no. 23, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), 72, no. 204
  • John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 31, no. 48
  • John Marshall Phillips, "A Puritan Spoon," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 7, no. 2 (June 1936), 25–26, ill
  • Exhibition of Silversmithing by John Coney, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1932), no. 28
  • Hermann F. Clarke, John Coney, Silversmith, 1655 - 1722 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932), 39–40, no. 74, pl. 25, ill
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 26, pl. 3, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

spoons

Marks

"IC", hollow pellet between and fleur-de-lis below, in shaped shield (in bowl and on back of handle).

Inscriptions

"RSS" engraved on back of handle

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