Spout cup
about 1720
Andrew Tyler (American, 1692 or 1693–1741)
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 115
Accession Number
37.568
Medium or Technique
Silver
Not On View
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Classifications
Markings
Marked to right of handle "A T" in small, fat, somewhat crude letters, below a crown and over a device (fleur-de-lys?), all within a sheld shape that is rounded at top and bottom. Similar to that found on tankard 250.1.1981.
Also marked under base "A T" and same devices, but seemingly in an ellipse.
Provenance
Early history unknown; Isaac and Elizabeth /Storer) Smith, m. 1746; their son William, m. Hannah Carter, 1787; their son Thomas, m. Frances Barnard, 1831; their daughter Frances, m.Thomas Davis Townsend 1854; their son Charles Wendell, father of the donor.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Gertrude Townsend