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A SILVER PORRINGER

Details

A SILVER PORRINGER
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1720

Circular, with pierced keyhole handle engraved C over IM, marked W:Cowell--8 1/8in. long
(8 oz. 10 dwt.)

Literature

American Art of the Colonies and Early Republic, Art Institute of Chicago, 1971, no. 106, p. 77.

Exhibited

Art Institute of Chicago, July 17-September 13, 1971

Lot Essay

A porringer by Cowell Sr. with an identical handle is illustrated in Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1972, fig, 103, pg. 128. For this reason the present porringer is attributed to Cowell Sr. although the mark on the present example was also used by his son.