MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL, SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1715

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A SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP FROM THE FARMINGTON CHURCH
MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL, SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1715
Of cylindrical form with slightly everted rim, on circular base, the lower body with chased spiral fluting and a gadrooned mid band, S-scroll handles with diminishing beads, the base engraved F.C, marked on body on one side, and on other side near handle with Kane mark B
7 in. (17.9 cm.) wide over handles; 8 oz. 10 dwt. (271 gr.)

来源

First Church of Christ, Congregational, Farmington, Connecticut, sold
Sotheby's New York, 21 January 2005, lot 420

出版

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, 1911, no. 287, p. 32
E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, pp. 178-179, pl. LXI
Yale University, Gallery of Fine Arts, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650-1800, 1939, no. 56, p. 34
John Marshall Phillips "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections," The Magazine Antiques, April 1949, p. 282
Barbara McLean Ward, ""In a Feasting Posture:" Communion Vessels and Community Values in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century New England," Winterthur Portfolio (Spring 1988), pp. 16-17, fig . 10
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Goldsmiths, 1998, p. 351
Barbara McLean Ward, "Continuity and Change in New England Church Silver and Communion Practices, 1790-1840", New England Silver and Silversmithing, 1620-1815, 2001, pp. 118-119, fig. 4

展览

"American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with a few pieces of Domestic Plate", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911, no. 287
"Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650-1800," Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts, 1939, no. 56
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1964-2004

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The Farmington Church was founded in 1652 by Thomas Hooker, an extreme Protestant minister who had escaped persecution in England to form a truly puritanical community in the new world. Hooker deemed the wilderness of central Connecticut as the ideal environment for a pure form of worship, and he established the First Church of Christ in Farmington. Silver given to puritan churches was engraved with the initials of the congregation rather than an individual donor. A caudle cup, also from Farmington Church, circa 1670, is offered as lot 99.

A similar two-handled cup by Cowell is in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated in Graham Hood, American Silver, 1971, p. 55.

MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL, SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1715

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