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

ca. 1690–1700

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.420

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Flatware

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Provenance
Mary Shrimpton (1667–1746), Boston. John and Elizabeth Hastings, Boylston, Massachusetts; Francis P. Garvan, New York; gift in 1936 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 122–24, no. 119, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 45, fig. 28
  • 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. 25, 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), 31, no. 49
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 (on back of handle).

Inscriptions

"MS" engraved on back of handle; "IHE" added later above.

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