Papboat
Unknown American, American
about 1775
Silver
Overall: 5 1/8 × 3 1/4 × 1 3/8 in. (13 × 8.3 × 3.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924
M.969.17
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Engraved on bottom: oz / 2 pwt [pellet between] / 12 grs [pellet between] / 6 oz pwt grs [rs superscript] / 2 12 6 [pellets between numbers]
Exhibition History
American Silver, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27-November 3, 1974
Colonial Days, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine, July 30, - August 3, 1963
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1984
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 2-October 11, 1978
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-30, 1964
Massachusetts Silver of the Colonial Period, Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1972
New England Silver at Dartmouth: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 76.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdams, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 76.
Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, pp. 120-121, ill. p. 121.
Provenance
Collection of Miss Frances R. Porter, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts, November 4, 1960; given to present collection, 1969.
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