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Identification and Creation

Object Number
871.1927
People
John Burt, American (Boston, MA 1692/3 - 1745/6 Boston, MA)
Title
Candlestick (one of a pair)
Classification
Lighting Devices
Work Type
lighting device
Date
1724
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232511

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
17.8 cm (7 in.)
4337.4 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Mark, on the foot of each: IB
    crowned, with Pellet below, in a shield
    inscribed, on facet next to maker's mark: Donum/Pupillorum/1724

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given to Tutor Nicholas Sever, Class of 1701, by his students in 1724.
Rev. Winslow Warren Sever, descended in family.
Gift to Harvard College. Class of 1818.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University; Gift to Harvard College from the Reverend Winslow Warren Sever, Class of 1818
Object Number
871.1927
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • American Silver: The Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1906)
  • Francis Hill Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1917), p. 288, pl. 190
  • Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, "The Burts, Boston Silversmiths", American Collector (August 1940), vol. IX no. 7, pp. 6-7, 14, pp. 6, 7, repr.
  • Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 1
  • Joseph T. Butler, Candleholders in America: 1650-1900, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1967), repr. p. 34
  • Wendy Ann Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830/ Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), pp. 88-90. fig. 110
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650-1900, E. P. Dutton & Co. (New York, NY, 1989), pp. 93-96

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, New York Historical Society, 1948, New York Historical Society, New York, 10/01/1947 - 01/31/1948
  • From Colony to Nation, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/20/1949 - 06/19/1949
  • Unidentified Exhibition, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1950, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now Nelson-Atkins), Kansas City, 09/01/1950 - 10/31/1950
  • Unidentified Exhibition, MFA Boston, 1956, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/01/1956 - 12/31/1956
  • American Classics of the 19th Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 02/14/1958 - 03/16/1958
  • Highlights from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/30/1964 - 03/01/1964

Verification Level

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