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THBRARE COLONIAL SILVER BOWL BY JACOB HURD
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LiveFeb 11, 2017 - Feb 13, 2017
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries info@thomastonauction.com
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Circa 1740 Boston Colonial Silver Covered Bowl by Jacob Hurd (c. 1702-1758), round with circular molded foot, dome shaped lid with circular finial, base with engraved Henchman family coat of arms topped with engraved image of the bowl, lid with engraved crest of forearm and hand grasping an antler (symbolizing leadership and strength), engraved weight on base: '9oz, 2dwt, 0gr', engraved weight on top of lid: '6-2-0', marked HURD in rectangular cartouche on base and on top of lid (mark #4, from book "Jacob Hurd and His Sons" by Hollis French, Da Capo Press, NY, 1972, indicating manufacture between 1740 and 1756); 4-1/2" high, 6" diam., 14.95 ozt; old round repair to back of bowl the size of a nickel. A similar piece (this one does not have an image of the bowl at the top of the Henchman coat of arms) is in the collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that descended in the Henchman family: Nathaniel Henchman (1700-1761) and Deborah Wager (1701-1730) of Lynn, MA; to son and Boston silversmith Daniel Henchman (1730-1775) who married Elizabeth Hurd (1731-after 1777), the daughter of silversmith Jacob Hurd, in 1753; Daniel Henchman was apprenticed to Jacob Hurd, circa 1743. LITERATURE: Frances Gruber Stafford, "Colonial Silver in the American Wing", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1983, no. 47, pp. 38-39 EXHIBITED: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957-2016, on loan from Elinor Sewall Scovil and descendents
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