Punch Strainer

John Coburn, American, 1725 - 1803

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about 1770

Silver

Overall: 10 5/8 × 1 in. (27 × 2.5 cm)

Bowl: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)

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

M.972.111

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Processing

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marked twice-on bottom of each handle: I.COBURN [in rectangle]

Exhibition History

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

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

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-April 30, 1976.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 25, 1997--November 6, 2006.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11-January 5, 1979.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 12-November 10, 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. 15.

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. 15.

The Magazine Antiques, Museum Accessions, September 1974, p. 478.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 293-303, 1998.

Provenance

Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1972.

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