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Daniel Henchman, American, 1730 - 1775

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about 1765

Silver

Overall: 6 × 5 1/4 in. (15.2 × 13.3 cm)

Lid: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchase made possible through the generosity of Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924

M.986.44

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 on base: Henchman [in conforming punch]; engraved on pourer's side: [coat of arms: shield with two estoiles of six points above a five-pointed star, surrounded by rococo cartouoche]

Course History

SART 27.01, Printmaking I, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 22, 1991-June 22, 1997.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-May 8, 2007.

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.42.

The Rococo Style in New England Silver, Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13, 2012.

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. 42.

Sotheby's Catalogue: Fine American Furniture, Folk Art, Folk Paintings and Silver, New York, June 26, 1986, no. 52.

Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, no.42.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 538-543, 1998.

Provenance

Sotheby's, Firestone and Parson, Inc., Jewelers. purchased 06/27/1986

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