2020.189: Serving Spoon
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2020.189
- People
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John Edwards, American (England c. 1671 - 1746 Boston)
- Title
- Serving Spoon
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1720
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369952
Location
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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43.2 cm (17 in.)
170 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- maker's mark: in bowl, stamped: [crown] / IE / [cross] [in a shaped punch] [mark of John Edwards]
- coat of arms: back of bowl, engraved: [crest with rabbit in cartouche]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Spencer Marks, Southampton, MA]. Benjamin F. Edwards, III, St. Louis, sold, [through Christie's, New York, January 21, 2010, lot 59]. [S. J. Shrubsole, New York, 2010], sold; to Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Pollack Collection, gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.189
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Canon-handled serving spoon with an oval bowl
Publication History
- 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), probably p. 416
- Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 6, repr.
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/14/2022 - 06/02/2025
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