MARK OF EDWARD WINSLOW, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1725

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AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER
MARK OF EDWARD WINSLOW, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1725
The pierced keyhole handle engraved with block initials B / WE, marked on upper rim near handle EW in a shaped cartouche (Kane mark C)
7 ¾ in. (19.6 cm.) long, over handle
7 oz. 18 dwt. (246 gr.)

Provenance

For a member of the Boyleston family, Boston, Massachusetts.
With Gebelein Silversmiths Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, by 1975.

Literature

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 979.
The Magazine Antiques, October 1975, p. 594.

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Lot Essay

Another porringer by Winslow with the initials B / TS, probably created for Thomas Boylston (1691-1739) and Sarah Morecock (1696-1774), is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (Acc. No. 1976.640).

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