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Identification and Creation

Object Number
872.1927
People
John Burt, American (Boston, MA 1692/3 - 1745/6 Boston, MA)
Title
Candlestick (one of a pair)
Classification
Lighting Devices
Work Type
lighting device
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232226

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
17.8 cm (7 in.)
2523.06 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Mark: IB
    Engraved, base of each: Donum Pupillorum 1724

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given to Tutor Nicholas Sever, Class of 1701, by his students in 1724.
Descended to the Rev. Winslow Warren Sever who presented them to Harvard College.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University; Gift to Harvard College from the Reverend Winslow Warren Sever, Class of 1818
Object Number
872.1927
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, "The Burts, Boston Silversmiths", American Collector (August 1940), vol. IX no. 7, pp. 6-7, 14, pp. 6, 7, repr.
  • Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 1
  • Wendy Ann Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830/ Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), pp. 88-90, fig. 110

Verification Level

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