Lot 384
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AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN
AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN
AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN
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AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN

MARK OF NATHANIEL HURD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1760

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AN AMERICAN SILVER CANN
MARK OF NATHANIEL HURD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1760
Of baluster form on a stepped circular foot, engraved with a coat-of-arms in a rococo cartouche to the front, with a leaf-capped double scroll handle, marked on underside N Hurd in a shape (Kane mark A)
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
12 oz. 2 dwt. (376 gr.)
Provenance
The Stoddard family, Boston, Massachusetts.
Acquired from Jonathan Trace, New York.

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Stoddard, possibly for a descendant of Colonel John Stoddard (1681-1748) of Boston, Massachusetts. An almost identical cann by Nathaniel Hurd engraved with the same coat-of-arms was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2023, lot 936. Further silver by Nathaniel Hurd for the Stoddard family includes a teapot at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, for Prudence Stoddard (Acc. No. 63.1044), tablespoons and teaspoons referenced in P. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, pp. 620-621, and a coffee pot engraved with the arms of Chauncy impaling Stoddard illustrated in H. French, Jacob Hurd and his Sons, Cambridge, 1939, p. 101, plate XXII.

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