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New England silver & silversmithing, 1620-1815 / edited by Jeannine Falino & Gerald W.R. Ward.
- Title
- New England silver & silversmithing, 1620-1815 / edited by Jeannine Falino & Gerald W.R. Ward.
- Publication
- Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; [Charlottesville] : Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 281 p. : ill., port.; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70
- Uniform Title
- Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70.
- Alternative Title
- New England silver and silversmithing, 1620-1815
- New England silver and silversmithing
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Essays based on presentations made at a conference held Apr. 19-20, 1996 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and co-sponsored by the Colonial Society of Mass.
- "Printed at the Stinehour Press"--Colophon.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Complexity of Silver / Richard Lyman Bushman 1 -- Style, Form, and Function -- Chasers, the Chase, and Other Scenes on Boston Rococo-Style Silver / Patricia E. Kane 19 -- Colonial New England Silver Snuff, Tobacco, and Patch Boxes: Indices of Gentility / Madeline Siefke Estill 44 -- The Silver Chocolate Pots of Colonial Boston / Gerald W.R. Ward 61 -- Ecclesiastical Silver -- "We owe something more than prayers": Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship / Karen Parsons 91 -- Continuity and Change in New England Church Silver and Communion Practices, 1790-1840 / Barbara McLean Ward 113 -- Social Context -- Paul Revere and 1768: His Portrait and the Liberty Bowl / Jonathan L. Fairbanks 135 -- "The Pride Which Pervades thro every Class": The Customers of Paul Revere / Jeannine Falino 152 -- "Ancient and Valuable Gifts": Silver at Colonial Harvard / Janine E. Skerry 183 -- Regional Topics -- Glistening Reflections of Stability: The Roles of Silver in Early Maine / Edwin A. Churchill 213 -- "An influential and useful man": Samuel Bartlett of Concord, Massachusetts / David F. Wood 246.
- ISBN
- 096207375X
- LCCN
- ^^2002277787
- OCLC
- 47958733
- SCSB-10173881
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library