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Paul Revere, II, American (worked Boston, Massachusetts), 1735 - 1818

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1760-1770

Silver

Overall: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)

Base: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

Rim: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924

M.971.24

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

Marked twice-on bottom and at left of handle: REVERE [pellet preceding, in rectangle]; engraved on tip of handle: ME

Exhibition History

American Silver, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27-November 3, 1974.

Concord Antiquarian Society, Concord, Massachusetts.

Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 12, 2009-present.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 16-June 2, 1978.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 14-August 15, 1976.

Massachusetts Silver of the Colonial Period, Stauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1972.

New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 62.

William Hogarth and the Serpentine l'Line of Beauty, Hopkins Center Galleries, Harrington Silver Case, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 28-December 5, 1980.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 62.

The Magazine Antiques, "Museum Accessions", January 1973.

Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver from the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, p. 100-102, ill. p. 101.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 795-809, 1998.

Provenance

Ex-Coll: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts, December 1,1960; given to present collection, 1971.

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