Pepper Box Maker: John Edwards (American, 1671–1746)

ca. 1700–1710

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
other (Lip): 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
base: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1321

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
A. J. Hill, Boston; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 415
  • 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. 68, no. 62
  • Gregor Norman-Wilcox, "American Silver Spice Dredgers, Part II," Antiques 45 (February 1944), 81, no. 2, ill
  • Gregor Norman-Wilcox, "American Silver Spice Dredgers, Part I," Antiques 45 (January 1944), 21, fig. 3a
  • 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), 45, no. 91
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 313, fig. 216
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

pepper shakers

Marks

"IE" in quatrefoil (on bottom).

Inscriptions

"HBA" engraved on bottom.

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