Details
A LARGE SILVER BASTING SPOON
MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT FAIRCHILD, STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1755
With oval bowl and upturned rounded stem, the stem reverse engraved CI, marked with Buhler & Hood mark 340--15 3/8in. long
(6 oz. 10 dwt.)
MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT FAIRCHILD, STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1755
With oval bowl and upturned rounded stem, the stem reverse engraved CI, marked with Buhler & Hood mark 340--15 3/8in. long
(6 oz. 10 dwt.)
Provenance
The initials CI are those of Charity Johnson, wife of Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), Yale 1714), of Stratford, Connecticut, first president of King's College (now Columbia University). Johnson was a leading founder of the Church of England in Connecticut, and received his doctorate from Oxford in 1743. Johnson also owned a chafing dish by Robert Fairchild, now in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery (illustrated in Buhler & Hood, American Silver, 1970, fig. 340, pp. 237-239).
Literature
Peter Bohan and Philip Hammerslough, Early Connecticut Silver, 1700-1840, 1970, fig. 58, p. 81.