Pendant with Chains Maker: Samuel Parmelee (American, 1737–1803)

ca. 1756

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

1 5/16 × 1 1/4 in. (3.3 × 3.2 cm, 24 g)
other (chain): 10 7/8 in. (27.62 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Emily H. Chauncey

Accession Number

1946.117

Geography

Made in Guilford, Connecticut, Made in New Haven County

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Jewelry

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Miss Emily Chauncy; gift in 1946 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Peter J. Bohan and Philip H. Hammerslough, Early Connecticut Silver 1700–1840 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007), 62, pl. 38, ill
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Jewelry in America, 1600–1900, 1st (Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club Ltd., 1995), 59, fig. 34
  • 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), 114, no. 108, 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. 248–49, no. 371, ill
  • Philip H. Hammerslough, "A Master-Craftsman of Early Guilford," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 9, no. 4 (October 1954), 126, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

pendants (jewelry)

Marks

"S.P" in cartouche with pointed, shield-like bottom on reverse of heart at tip

Inscriptions

"Ann Cushing (in script)/ 1756/ P+B/ over" engraved and "Ann Raw" scratched on reverse of heart pedant

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