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PROPERTY OF OLD SOUTH CHURCH IN BOSTON (LOTS 781-784)The roots of Old South Church reach to the 17th century, when dissenters broke away from Boston’s First Church, forming what became known as the Third Church in Boston in 1669. The congregation grew to include some of America’s most prominent thinkers and statesmen; Benjamin Franklin was baptized at the Church in 1706, and the patriots Samuel Adams and William Dawes were counted as members. In 1773, Adams gathered some 5,000 citizens in and around the Church, then situated at the Old South Meeting House, shouting out the Mohawk “war whoops” that signaled the patriots to storm the trade ship Dartmouth--thus starting the Boston Tea Party, the most iconic event of the American Revolution. At the base of Old South Church’s Boylston Street portico is the Latin inscription: Qui transtullit sustinet (“The God who has brought us thus far will continue to sustain us”). Indeed, perhaps no other congregation in America has figured so greatly in the American social fabric as Old South Church. At the forefront of social justice for more than three centuries, the church’s mission to serve the lost, the impoverished, and the marginalized continues to this day.
A FINE SILVER BEAKER
MARK OF JOHN CONEY, BOSTON, CIRCA 1715
Details
A FINE SILVER BEAKER
MARK OF JOHN CONEY, BOSTON, CIRCA 1715
The body engraved Property / of the / Old South Church, engraved under base with block initials S C, marked under base with Kane mark C
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high; 7 oz. 14 dwt. (241 gr.)
MARK OF JOHN CONEY, BOSTON, CIRCA 1715
The body engraved Property / of the / Old South Church, engraved under base with block initials S C, marked under base with Kane mark C
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high; 7 oz. 14 dwt. (241 gr.)
Literature
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Church Silver, 1911, p. 30 (no. 272)
E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, p. 52, illus. pl. XX
Francis Hill Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers, 1917, p. 68
Hermann F. Clarke, John Coney, Silversmith, 1655-1722, 1932, no. 7
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 322
E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, p. 52, illus. pl. XX
Francis Hill Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers, 1917, p. 68
Hermann F. Clarke, John Coney, Silversmith, 1655-1722, 1932, no. 7
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 322
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Exhibition of Silversmithing by John Coney", 1932, no. 53