Pair of Two-Handled Cups Maker: Joseph Loring (American, 1743–1815)

ca. 1790

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1342.1a-b-.2a-b

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Brattle Street Church, Boston, MA; Francis H. Bigelow, Cambridge, Mass.; Francis P. Garvan, New York (1916); gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 674
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 110, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 168, 172–73, fig. 183
  • 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. 208, no. 275, ill
  • The New England Silversmith, exh. cat. (Procidence, R.I.: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1965), no. 130
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part III, Ecclesiastical Silver," Antiques 55, no. 4 (April 1949), 285, 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), 64, no. 140
  • John Marshall Phillips, "A Puritan Spoon," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 7, no. 2 (June 1936), 24–25, ill
  • E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1913), 69–70, pl. 27, ill
  • 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), 85, no. 711–14
  • The Massachusetts Colonial Loan Exhibit at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, 1607–1907, exh. cat. (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1907), no. 477
  • John Henry Buck, Old Plate, Its Makers and Marks, 2d ed. (New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1903), 218–19, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"J•Loring" in cartouche on bottom of each cup

Inscriptions

"PROPERTY / of / BRATTLE STREET CHURCH / BOSTON" in bright cut elliptical medallion, hung from ribboned bow.

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