AN IMPORTANT SILVER BEAKER
AN IMPORTANT SILVER BEAKER

MARK OF PAUL REVERE, BOSTON, 1753

Details
AN IMPORTANT SILVER BEAKER
Mark of Paul Revere, Boston, 1753
Bell-form on a molded circular foot, the side engraved with a presentation inscription within a strapwork, scroll and bellflower cartouche, marked under base
5½in. high, 2¾in. diameter of foot; 9oz. 10dwt.
Literature
Patricia Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 806-07.
E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, p. 78, illus. pl. XXX.
Exhibited
"American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911, cat. no. 871-72, p. 105, illus. pl. 31.
Engraved
This Cup is Generously Dedicated by the Contributors for the Sole use & benefit of ye Presbyterian Church and Congregation in Bury Street of which the Revd. Mr. Moorhead is Minister. N=England. 8br ye 1753

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