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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2020.189
People
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
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
43.2 cm (17 in.)
170 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • 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
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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 - 01/01/2050

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