MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL REVERE, JR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1796

細節

A SILVER BEAKER
Maker's mark of Paul Revere, Jr., Boston, circa 1796
Tapering cylindrical, the rims bright-cut engraved with a wrigglework border, one side engraved with an oval reserve centering script initial T, marked under base with Kane mark C or D
37/8in. high; 4oz.

來源

Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), Worcester, Massachusetts
R.T. Halsey Collection
Mark Bortman Collection

出版

American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906, cat. no. 248, illus. pl. XXVII
Buhler & Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, vol. 1, 1970, no. 260 in comparison to the pair of Isaiah Thomas beakers in the museum's collection.

展覽

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906
Hudson-Fulton Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909
Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, de Young Museum, San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1952

拍品專文

This beaker is one of a set made for the Revolutionary War patriot and publisher Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). There are three other surviving beakers from the set: two are in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, and the third was owned by Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Isaiah Thomas was an active member of the Sons of Liberty and publisher of the revolutionary newspaper The Massachusetts Spy from 1770-1775. He and two of his fellow printers were characterized by the British as "those trumpeters of sedition." In 1802, he retired from printing to publish a treatise on the history of printing in America, and founded the American Antiquarian Society in 1812.

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Masthead of The Massachusetts Spy, printed by Paul Revere, 1774 for publisher Isaiah Thomas Courtesy Massachusetts Historical Society