Coffeepot Maker: Daniel Henchman (1730–1775)

ca. 1755–65

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

9 15/16 × 9 1/4 in. (25.2 × 23.5 cm)
other (Lip): 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
base: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1935.236

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Originally owned by Timothy Lindall; his granddaughter, Jane Winthrop; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1935; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 541
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 107, ill
  • 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, pp. 172–74, no. 221, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1950), 48–49, fig. 38
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 94, no. 171, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part IV, Rococo and Federal Periods," Antiques 56 (July 1949), 42, ill
  • 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), 50–51, no. 104
  • K. Gregory, "Going! Going!! Going!!!," Town and Country 91, no. 4161 (February 1936), 76
  • Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1936), 39–40, no. 151
  • Anderson Galleries, New York, American and English Furniture and Silver: Early American and Georgian Silver, sale cat. (November 29–30, 1935), 16, no. 74, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

coffeepots

Marks

"D•H" in rectangle at lip to left of handle; "Henchman" in rectangle on bottom

Inscriptions

Winthrop arms and crest, in shell and foliate cartouche, engraved on side; "The Gift of T. Lindall. Esqr/ To mrs Jane. Winthrop" engraved on bottom; "T.L. Winthrop 1874" added later on bottom

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