Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II

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Lot 181
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An American silver porringer, John Allen and John Edwards, Boston circa 1700

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • length overall 7 1/2 in.
  • 19 cm
geometric handle later engraved SBS from her Grandmother, marked at rim left of handle.

Provenance

Ginsberg & Levy, New York, 1964

Literature

The Magazine Antiques 85 (June 1964), p. 623
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, p. 144

Catalogue Note

Only three porringers by Allen & Edwards listed are by Patricia Kane: this one, an example in the Metropolitan Museum, and a third in the MFA Boston's 1911 exhibition of Church silver.