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Teapot
Jacob Hurd · 1740–55
Provenance
Ownership history
- Captain Christopher Tilden (1711-1755) and Sarah Parrott Tilden (born 1717; m. 1740), Boston. Mrs. J. E. Muggah, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, by 1939. With Fireston and Parson, Boston, by 1991; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Hollis French, "Jacob Hurd and his Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin: Silversmiths, 1702–1781" (Riverside Press, 1939) cat. 278, 48.
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), 74–5, cat. 21 (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. 21 (ill.).
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