Communion Dish

1. Commissioned by the First Church of Christ, Medford, MA from a cash bequest of Isaac Royall, Jr. (1719–1781), Medford, MA, 1781; consigned to Firestone and Parson, Inc., Boston, by 1987 [letter from David Firestone, Firestone and Parson, Nov. 25, 1987; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Marshall Field V, Chicago, Mar. 11, 1988 [gallery invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, <em>American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate</em>, Jul–Dec. 1911, cat. 109.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8145/spiritual-expressions-art-for-private-contemplation-and-public-ceremony"><em>Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Contemplation and Public Ceremony</em></a>, Nov. 22, 1995–Mar. 17, 1996, brochure only (ill.).

• Florence Virginia Berger and George Munson Curtis, <em>American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, 1911), 14, cat. 109, pl. 5 (ill.), as <em>Alms Basin</em>.
• E. Alfred Jones, <em>The Old Silver of American Churches</em> (Letchworth, England: Arden Press, 1913), 275, pl. 89 (ill.).
• Gladys N. Hoover, <em>The Elegant Royalls of Colonial New England</em> (Vantage Press, 1974), 101.
• Patricia E. Kane, et al., <em>Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers</em> (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 228.
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 75–76, cat. 19 (ill.).
• Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., <em>American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 88, 105–7, cat. 35 (ill.).
• Elizabeth McGoey, ed., <em>American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (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. 35 (ill.).

Cann

Art Institute of Chicago

Teapot

Art Institute of Chicago

Fan

Art Institute of Chicago

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

Art Institute of Chicago

The Death of Procris

Art Institute of Chicago

A Gentleman

Art Institute of Chicago

The Butcher Cart

Art Institute of Chicago

Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross

Art Institute of Chicago

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