Research Catalog

Title

New England silver & silversmithing, 1620-1815 / edited by Jeannine Falino & Gerald W.R. Ward.

Publication

Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; [Charlottesville] : Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Falino, Jeannine J.
• Ward, Gerald W. R.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

Description

xiv, 281 p. : ill., port.; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70

Uniform Title

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70.

Alternative Title

• New England silver and silversmithing, 1620-1815
• New England silver and silversmithing

Subject

• Silverwork, Colonial > New England > Congresses
• Silverwork > New England > History > 17th century > Congresses
• Silverwork > New England > History > 18th century > Congresses
• New England > Social life and customs > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Essays based on presentations made at a conference held Apr. 19-20, 1996 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and co-sponsored by the Colonial Society of Mass.
• "Printed at the Stinehour Press"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Complexity of Silver / Richard Lyman Bushman 1 -- Style, Form, and Function -- Chasers, the Chase, and Other Scenes on Boston Rococo-Style Silver / Patricia E. Kane 19 -- Colonial New England Silver Snuff, Tobacco, and Patch Boxes: Indices of Gentility / Madeline Siefke Estill 44 -- The Silver Chocolate Pots of Colonial Boston / Gerald W.R. Ward 61 -- Ecclesiastical Silver -- "We owe something more than prayers": Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship / Karen Parsons 91 -- Continuity and Change in New England Church Silver and Communion Practices, 1790-1840 / Barbara McLean Ward 113 -- Social Context -- Paul Revere and 1768: His Portrait and the Liberty Bowl / Jonathan L. Fairbanks 135 -- "The Pride Which Pervades thro every Class": The Customers of Paul Revere / Jeannine Falino 152 -- "Ancient and Valuable Gifts": Silver at Colonial Harvard / Janine E. Skerry 183 -- Regional Topics -- Glistening Reflections of Stability: The Roles of Silver in Early Maine / Edwin A. Churchill 213 -- "An influential and useful man": Samuel Bartlett of Concord, Massachusetts / David F. Wood 246.

ISBN

096207375X

LCCN

^^2002277787

OCLC

• 47958733
• SCSB-10173881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library