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Unknown American, American
formerly attributed to Loring Bailey, American, 1740 - 1814

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late 18th century, or possibly late 19th century

Silver with a wood handle

Overall: 7 × 4 × 11 1/4 in. (17.8 × 10.2 × 28.6 cm)

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

M.967.40

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: LB [in rectangle]; scratched on bottom: XLI [or 17X?]

Course History

ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013

ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014

Exhibition History

American Decorative Art at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 10-March 1, 1981, no. 32.

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

Colonial Days, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30-August 3, 1963.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-June 1, 1977.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 28, 1981-June 7, 1982.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-30, 1964.

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, October 15, 1976-January 28, 1977.

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. 1.

The New England Silversmith, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, October 23-November 28, 1965.

Publication History

Jules D. Prown, "The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction," in History from Things: essays on material culture, Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery, eds., Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, pp. 1-19

Jules David Prown, Kenneth Haltman, eds., American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000, ill. p. 20

Hugh J. Gourley, The New England Silversmith, Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design, 1965, no. 19.

Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, p. 32, no. 32.

Margaret J. Moody, American Decorative Art at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1981.

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. 1.

Jules D. Prown, " The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction," American Art and Artifacts, Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1991.

Jules David Prown, Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2001, 304 pp., ill. p. 228.

Provenance

James Daley; sold to Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Wocester, Massachusetts, December 1958; given to present collection, 1967.

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