Harvard Art Museums > 880.1927: "The Dunster Porringer" Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation""The Dunster Porringer" (Unidentified Artist) , 880.1927,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/232514. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 880.1927 People Unidentified Artist Title "The Dunster Porringer" Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 1637-1638 Places Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/232514 Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Dimensions 3.8 x 12.4 cm (1 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.) 168 g Inscriptions and Marks maker's mark: struck on rim: GM [with bird below in beaded heart-shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 117, line 9] monogram: base, engraved: D [over] HE inscription: base, engraved: This belonged / to / Prest. Dunster / of / Harvard College Repaired 1854 hallmark: struck on rim: lion passant, leopard's head, [illeg. date letter] hallmark: top of handle: lion passant Provenance Recorded Ownership History Possibly the Reverend Jose Glover and his wife Elizabeth née Harris, before 1638. Henry Dunster and either his first wife Elizabeth Glover (married 1641-43) or Dunster and his second wife, Elizabeth Atkinson (married 1644-56), by descent; to Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Dunster and Elizabeth Atkinson, bequest; to Henry Dunster (nephew of Elizabeth Thomas), 1729, to his son by descent; Henry Dunster, by descent. Charles H. Baker [1], Mohegan Lake, NY, gift; to Harvard University, 1931. [1] Charles H. Baker is the grandson of Samuel Dunster of Attleboro, a descendant of Henry Dunster Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University; Gift of Charles H. Baker Object Number 880.1927 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Plain circular with flat trefoil handle pierced with trefoil, small circle and three crescents; the base engraved D over HE; with later applied oval patch engraved: "This belonged/to/Prest. Dunster/of/Harvard College Repaired 1854" Publication History Francis Hill Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1917), p. 299, ill. p. 198 Mrs. Russell Hastings, "Verifying a Hull and Sanderson Porringer", The Magazine Antiques, Volume 22, Antiques (New York, July 1937), P. 117, Fig. 6 Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1982), pp. 481, 490, no. 454 Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), pp. 36-37, cat. no. 7, repr. p. 37 Exhibition History New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/05/1982 - 08/22/1982 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
