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Lot 164: BOSTON SILVER PORRINGER

Est: $0 USD - $0 USDSold:
CRN AuctionsCambridge, MA, USApril 27, 2008

Item Overview

Description

maker: John Coney, Boston (1655-1722)
maker's initials with running rabbit on outer bowl near handle
initials engraved on handle away from bowl
2.25"h; 5.25" diameter
9 troy oz.
See: American Silver 1655-1825 in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Kathryn Buhler, vol. I., pg. 64

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Balch Family provenance

Notes

Coney probably apprenticed to Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718) of Boston. It is belileved he may have engraved the plates for the first banknotes printed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690, and certainly engraved the plates issued in 1702. His work appears in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Auction Details

Spring Antiques Auction

by
CRN Auctions
April 27, 2008, 11:00 AM EST

445 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138-1216, US