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An American Silver Brazier, Jacob Hurd, Boston, circa 1735
Description
- marked on underside HURD in cartouche (Kane mark B), and engraved with weight 20 oz : 0 : 0 : 0
- Silver
- length 11 7/8 in.
- 30.1cm
Provenance
The arms are those of the Gardner family, thence by descent to present owner
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The mate to this chafing dish is listed in Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 592., and is in an American private collection. Hollis French also recorded the matching brazier in Jacob Hurd and His Sons Silversmiths 1702-1781, 1939, No. 54, p. 34, at which time it was in the collection of Edsel B. Ford, Esq. of Detroit, MI.
Kane records two pairs of chafing dishes and eight singles by Jacob Hurd. Other patrons of this expensive form included the silversmith Daniel Henchman, Lydia Henchman Hancock, Benjamin and Mary Bowles Lynde, and William Blair. When William Penn returned to his colony from London in 1699, his list of "Plait Carried to Pennsilvania" included "3 new Chaffen dishes 1 larg / 2 lesser & things to them to / burn Spirits in" (cited in Lindsey 1999 p. 181).
A nearly identical Hurd brazier engraved with the Walker arms was sold Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Jeffords, 29 October 2004, lot 680.