Harvard Art Museums > 2020.189: Serving Spoon 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"Serving Spoon (John Edwards) , 2020.189,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/369952. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2020.189 People John Edwards, American (England c. 1671 - 1746 Boston) Title Serving Spoon Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date c. 1720 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/369952 Location Location Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850 View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Dimensions 43.2 cm (17 in.) 170 g Inscriptions and Marks maker's mark: in bowl, stamped: [crown] / IE / [cross] [in a shaped punch] [mark of John Edwards] coat of arms: back of bowl, engraved: [crest with rabbit in cartouche] Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Spencer Marks, Southampton, MA]. Benjamin F. Edwards, III, St. Louis, sold, [through Christie's, New York, January 21, 2010, lot 59]. [S. J. Shrubsole, New York, 2010], sold; to Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Pollack Collection, gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64 Accession Year 2020 Object Number 2020.189 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 Canon-handled serving spoon with an oval bowl Publication History Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow & John Marshall Phillips, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1998), probably p. 416 Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 6, repr. Exhibition History 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/14/2022 - 01/01/2050 Related Works 1.2017 John Edwards Joseph Sewall Tankard from Old South Church, Boston Vessels 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
