拍品 78
78
AN AMERICAN SILVER BAPTISMAL BASIN
AN AMERICAN SILVER BAPTISMAL BASIN

BOSTON, CIRCA 1805

細節
AN AMERICAN SILVER BAPTISMAL BASIN
BOSTON, CIRCA 1805
Circular, engraved at the broad rim with a rayed oval cartouche with the presentation inscription The Gift of David Hyslop Esqr. to the Church of Christ in Brookline and with further inscription Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God, Luke XVIII, 16th, apparently unmarked; together with an American silver spoon, mark of Benjamin Pierpont, Boston, circa 1770, engraved on the stem with BC, and with a shell on the reverse, apparently unmarked
The basin 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) diameter; 22 oz. 10 dwt. (742 gr.)
出版
John Buck, Old Plate, Its Makers & Marks, 1903, p. 244 (the spoon)
E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, pl. XXXVII, pp. 99-103
展覽
American Church Silver, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911, no. 828, pl. 14 (the spoon)

拍品專文

The donor, David Hyslop (1755-1822), was the son of William and Mehitable Hyslop (see lot 77). He gave the present basin at the dedication of the new church in 1805. He worshipped at the Brattle Street Church in Boston until an organ was purchased, at which point he began attending the church in Brookline in protest. He briefly attended Princeton College between 1772 and 1773. For a full account of the life of David Hyslop, see Richard Harrison, Princetonians, 1776-1783: A Biographical Dictionary, 1981, pp. 52-54.

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