Wine Cup

1. William Needham (c. 1614–1690), c. 1660; First Congregational Society Church, Quincy (formerly Braintree), MA, 1688 -2001; private collection, 2001; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century, with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, July–December 1911, cat. 592, pl. 19 (ill.).
• Possibly Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1930, no cat.

• W.S. Pattee, "History of Old Braintree and Quincy" (1878) p. 244.
• E. Alfred Jones, "The Old Silver of American Churches" (Letchworth, England: Arden Press, 1913) p. 395.
• Hermann F. Clarke, "John Hull, A Builder of the Bay Colony" (Portland, Maine: Southworth–Anthoesen Press, 1940) no. 21.
• Patricia E. Kane et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 571, 885.
• Annual report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014–15) online only.
• Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 1 (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. 1 (ill.).

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