England
Overall: 22 x 34.3 x 23.2 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
Metal; silverplate

Inscriptions: none
Marks: No marks

Classification: Silver
Type, sub-type: Sheffield Plate

Object is currently not on view

Elliptical bowl decorated with chased leaf pattern on plain coved foot. Band of grapevine pattern in repousse and gadrooned molding around rim. Bezeled flat top has two circular openings for cylindrical wells to hold bottles; cylindrical collars in bottom of bowl support wells which have banded rims. Elliptical ring handles affixed to Bacchanalian masks at ends. Set with 41.617.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of 18th century American Arts, 1941
Accession number: 41.616.1a-d

Provenance/Ownership History: Please note: The history of ownership is not definitive or comprehensive, as it is under constant review and revision by MFA curators and researchers.

About 1790, Elias Hasket Derby (b. 1739 - d. 1799) and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield Derby (b. 1736), Salem, MA [see note 1]; by descent to their daughter, Elizabeth Derby (b. 1762 - d. 1814) and her husband, Nathaniel West (b. 1756), Salem; by descent to their daughter, Martha West (b. 1787 - d. 1851), Salem; 1838, gift of Martha West to Elizabeth Endicott (b. 1797 - d. 1866) and Augustus Perry (d. 1871?), Salem [see note 2]; 1871, by inheritance to their nephew, William Crowninshield Endicott (b. 1826 - d. 1900), Salem and Boston; 1900, by inheritance to his son, William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. (b. 1860 - d. 1936) and his wife, Louise Thoron Endicott, Boston; 1939, sold by Mrs. Endicott to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963) and Martha Codman Karolik (d. 1948), Newport, RI; 1941, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1941)

NOTES:
[1] The provenance is discussed by Edwin J. Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection (Cambridge, MA, 1941), p. 254, cat. no. 180. [2] The wine coolers were given as a wedding present.