Provenance

At the time the Art Gallery purchased this platter from the New Jersey Genesis Quarterly, Charles Montgomery was informed that the initials struck on the brim were for the members of the Burnett family, whose descendants had owned it "until recently" (Carl M. Williams to Charles F. Montgomery, 2 March 1973, American Arts Office Files, Yale University Art Gallery). Several members of the Burnett family moved from Lynn, Massachusetts, to what is now Union, New Jersey, in the late seventeenth century (Kathleen Stavec, Reference Librarian, New Jersey Historical Society, telephone conversation with the author, December 1984); however, no late seventeenth-century Burnett couples with the initials T and S have been found in the records of either state. Gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.