Patch Box Maker: William Rouse (American, 1639–1705)
Honorand: John Marshall Phillips, American, 1905–1953

ca. 1695

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

H. 11/16 × Diam. 1 15/16 in. (1.7 × 4.9 cm), 1 oz., 5 dwt. (39 g)

Credit Line

John Marshall Phillips Collection, Gift of his nephews Donald and Marshall Phillips

Accession Number

1955.10.2a-b

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Lydia Turell Foster; Mrs. Archibald M. Howe, North Andover, Mass.; Donald and Marshall Phillips, to 1955; Yale Uuniversity Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1955
Bibliography
  • Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Inventing Boston: Design, Production, and Consumption (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019), 29–30, fig. 21
  • Jeannine Falino and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., New England Silver and Silversmithing 1620-1815 (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 2001), 52–54, fig. 7
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 866
  • 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), 133, no. 139, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 48–49, fig. 35
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 8, fig. 5
  • 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. 11, no. 6, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), 68, no. 125, fig. 14
  • Helen Comstock, "The John Marshall Phillips Collection," Antiques 68 (December 1955), 556, ill
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 89, no. 302
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"WR" in relief within flattened oval struck twice inside.

Inscriptions

"LF" engraved on bottom.

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