Porringer

Inscriptions

Marked twice on reverse of handle, at center: T COVERLY [pellet between, in rectangle]; and at tip: TC [pellet between, in rectangle]; engraved on handle: L*M; engraved on underside of bowl, in script: Lydia Hutchinson / Born July 26th [th superscript] 1710

Exhibition History

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. 21.

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. 21.

The Cornelius C. Moore Collection of Early American Silver, Providence, Rhode Island, New York: Sotheby's, January 31, 1986, no. 84.

Sotheby's Important American Furniture Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Porcelain and Rugs, New York, Jaunuary 31, 1985, no. 84.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 341-343, 1998.

Provenance

Firestone and Parson, Inc., Jewelers, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1984.

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