Teapot
Jacob Hurd
(American, 1702 or 1703–1758)
about 1750
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Credit LineBequest of Miss Mary Lincoln Eliot
Accession number27.192
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
ProvenanceConjectured history of ownership begins with Elizabeth Vergoose, m. 1715 Thomas Fleet, printer (1685/6-1758); their son, Thomas (d. 1797), m. Elizabeth ____, her will written 1821, proved 1827 (the inventory included a teapot); their daughter Mary, m. Ephraim Eliot (Harvard College 1780, d. 1827), druggist, grandparents of the donor.
