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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2013.81
People
Jacob Hurd, American (Charlestown, MA 1702/3 - 1758 Roxbury, MA)
Title
Porringer
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 1735
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/349412

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
5.2 x 19.5 x 12.5 cm (2 1/16 x 7 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: rim near handle: IHURD [Kane mark B]
  • monogram: engraved on handle: AB

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
George C. Gebelein, Boston. Roy J. Zuckerberg, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Roy J. Zuckerberg in honor of Richard L. Menschel, MBA '59
Accession Year
2013
Object Number
2013.81
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hollis French, Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths 1702-1781, The Walpole Society (Cambridge, MA, 1939), no. 155
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow & John Marshall Phillips, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1998), p. 598

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 03/14/2022

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