Harvard Art Museums > 2020.197.2: One of two Ragout Spoons 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"One of two Ragout Spoons (Paul Revere Jr.) , 2020.197.2,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 07, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/369970. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2020.197.2 People Paul Revere Jr., American (Boston, MA 1734 - 1818 Boston, MA) Title One of two Ragout Spoons Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 1786 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/369970 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 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.) 253 g Inscriptions and Marks maker's mark: back of handle, stamped: REVERE monogram: on terminal, engraved: MRH [monogram of Michael Moses and Rachel (Myers) Hays] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Moses Michael Hays (1739-1805) and Rachel Myers (1738-1810), New York, Newport, and Boston, by descent; to their daughter, Judith Hays (1767-1844) and Samuel Myers (1755-1836), Richmond, by descent; to their son, Samuel Hays Myers (1799-1849), by descent; to his son, Edmund Trowbridge Dana Myers (1830-1905), by descent; to his son, Edmund Trowbridge Danan Myers, Jr. (1862-1934), by descent; to his daughter, Anna Hays Myers (b. 1895) and Daniel Doak Talley, by descent; to their heirs, sold [through Christie's, New York, January 17-18, 1992, lot 178]. [Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 100]. 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 2020.197.2 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. Publication History Kathryn C. Buhler, Masterpieces of American Silver, exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, 1960), p. 62, cat. no. 104 Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, January 17-18, 1992), pp. 92-94, lot 178, repr. p. 93 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. 825 Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets, exh. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 20, 2012), Lot 100, https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/americana-n08823/lot.100.html, accessed February 22, 2021 Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 24, repr. "Harvard Art Museums Receive Important Gift of American Silver", Artfixdaily Artwire ([e-journal], March 22, 2022), https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6573-harvard-art-museums-receive-important-gift-of-american-silver, accessed March 24, 2022 Exhibition History Masterpieces of American Silver, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 01/15/1960 - 02/14/1960 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/14/2022 - 01/01/2050 Related Works 1927.1.A-B Paul Revere Jr. Caster Vessels 1927.2.A-B Paul Revere Jr. Caster Vessels 1976.39 Paul Revere Jr. Cann Vessels 1927.3 Paul Revere Jr. Cream Pitcher Vessels 1927.4 Paul Revere Jr. Dessert spoon Tools and Equipment 1927.5 Paul Revere Jr. Dessert spoon Tools and Equipment 1.1961 Paul Revere Jr. Salver Vessels 2020.197.1 Paul Revere Jr. One of two Ragout Spoons Vessels 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