MARK OF JACOB HURD, BOSTON, CIRCA 1737

Details

A SILVER ALMS DISH
MARK OF JACOB HURD, BOSTON, CIRCA 1737
Circular, the molded rim engraved on one side with a coat-of-arms and on the other with a presentation inscription, marked on rim
12¼ in. (31 cm.) diameter; 18 oz. (574 gr.)

Provenance

The First Church of Christ, Lynn, Massachusetts, commissioned from a bequest by Col. Theophilus Burrill (1669-1737) Sold Sotheby's, New York, 19 June 1992, lot 88

Literature

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1911, no. 641, p. 75
E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, pl. 84, p. 256
Hollis French, Jacob Hurd and His Sons, Nathaniel and Benjamin:
Silversmiths 1702-1781, 1939, no. 4, p. 30
Patricia Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 585

Exhibited

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1909-1929
The Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts, circa 1955-May, 1967

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Burrill for Col. Theophilus Burrill (1669-1737).

The inscription reads:

The Gift of Theo. Burrill Esqr.
to the first Church of Christ in
Lynn

See note lot 64.

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