Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010

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Art of the Americas: July 2009–June 2010


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Teapot

1830–50
Roswell Gleason
Overall: 25.4 x 26.7 x 15.9 cm (10 x 10 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)
Pewter

Classification: Pewter

Object Place: Dorchester, Massachusetts

Accession number: 2009.4330

Location: The Heide Family Galleries (Roswell Gleason House: Dining Room)

Provenance/Ownership History: Early history unknown; Wayne Edsforth, Greenwich Hardware Antiques, 120 Main Street, Route 29, Greenwich, New York, by 2/19/2009; Gerald W.R. Ward, Portsmouth, N.H. 03801, 3/17/09; purchased by the Museum.

Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Charles Amos Cummings Bequest Fund