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Baptismal Basin
Samuel Edwards · c. 1756
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Willis (1681-1755), by 1755; bequeathed by him to the First Parish Church, Medford, MA, 1755-1988; with Firestone and Parson, Boston, 1988, sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, American Church Silver of the 17th and 18th Centuries, with a Few PIeces of Domestic Plate, Jul–Dec, 1911, cat. 454 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Comtemplation and Public Celebration, Nov. 22, 1995–Mar. 17, 1996, brochure only (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: Arden Press, 1913) p. 277.
- Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998) p. 446.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 75–76, no. 20.
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 28 (ill.).
- Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), <a href="https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6">https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6</a>, cat. 28 (ill.).
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