Cup

ca. 1724

Silver

4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
other (Lip): 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
base: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm)

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

1932.62

Geography:

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

American

Period:

18th century

Classification:

Containers - Metals

Provenance:

Possibly originally owned by Ebenezer and Experience Battles; Church of Christ, Hull, MA (dissolved in 1789); Methodist Episcopal Church, Hull, MA; Francis P. Garvan, New York; gift in 1932 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

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. 87, no. 93, ill.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 351.

John Henry Buck, Old Plate, Its Makers and Marks, 2d ed. (New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1903), 248–49.

E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1913), 218, pl. 73, ill.

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