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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
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.
