Harvard Art Museums > 2020.187: Cann Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Cann (Thomas Coverly) , 2020.187,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/369961. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2020.187 People Thomas Coverly, American (Boston 1708 - 1778 Boston) Title Cann Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date c. 1764 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/369961 Location Location Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850 View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Dimensions 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.) 425 g Inscriptions and Marks maker's mark: under base, stamped: T [pellet] COVERLY [in rectangle punch] [mark of Thomas Coverly] inscription: engraved, side opposite handle: The Gift / of M.r James Pittee / to the first Church of / Christ in Weymouth / A.D. 1764 Provenance Recorded Ownership History James Pittee (1692-1764), Weymouth, gift; to The First Church of Christ, Weymouth, 1764 until at least 1913. [Firestone and Parson, Boston]. Unidentified collector, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 2003, lot 837]. Susan and Daniel 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 2020.187 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Pear-shaped with scroll handle and circular foot Publication History Florence Paull Berger and George Munson Curtis, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1911), p. 31, cat. no. 279 E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, National Society of Colonial Dames of America (Letchworth, England, 1913), p. 493 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. 342 Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 16, repr. Exhibition History American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 07/01/1911 - 12/01/1911 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/14/2022 - 01/01/2050 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
