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Identification and Creation

Object Number
880.1927
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
"The Dunster Porringer"
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1637-1638
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232514

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
3.8 x 12.4 cm (1 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.)
168 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • maker's mark: struck on rim: GM [with bird below in beaded heart-shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 117, line 9]
  • monogram: base, engraved: D [over] HE
  • inscription: base, engraved: This belonged / to / Prest. Dunster / of / Harvard College Repaired 1854
  • hallmark: struck on rim: lion passant, leopard's head, [illeg. date letter]
  • hallmark: top of handle: lion passant

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly the Reverend Jose Glover and his wife Elizabeth née Harris, before 1638. Henry Dunster and either his first wife Elizabeth Glover (married 1641-43) or Dunster and his second wife, Elizabeth Atkinson (married 1644-56), by descent; to Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Dunster and Elizabeth Atkinson, bequest; to Henry Dunster (nephew of Elizabeth Thomas), 1729, to his son by descent; Henry Dunster, by descent. Charles H. Baker [1], Mohegan Lake, NY, gift; to Harvard University, 1931.

[1] Charles H. Baker is the grandson of Samuel Dunster of Attleboro, a descendant of Henry Dunster

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University; Gift of Charles H. Baker
Object Number
880.1927
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Plain circular with flat trefoil handle pierced with trefoil, small circle and three crescents; the base engraved D over HE; with later applied oval patch engraved: "This belonged/to/Prest. Dunster/of/Harvard College Repaired 1854"

Publication History

  • Francis Hill Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1917), p. 299, ill. p. 198
  • Mrs. Russell Hastings, "Verifying a Hull and Sanderson Porringer", The Magazine Antiques, Volume 22, Antiques (New York, July 1937), P. 117, Fig. 6
  • Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1982), pp. 481, 490, no. 454
  • Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), pp. 36-37, cat. no. 7, repr. p. 37

Exhibition History

  • New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/05/1982 - 08/22/1982

Verification Level

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