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Coffee pot

(American, 1734–1818)
about 1781
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer
Accession number31.139
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ClassificationsSilver hollowware
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ProvenancePaul Dudley Sargent (1745-1827), m. Lucy Saunders (1752-1840), 1772; history unknown until 1846, when the pot was inherited by Evelina Augusta Rust (1802-1878), m. Jesse W. Mighels, M.D.; their son Henry Rust Mighels; his son Henry Rust, Jr., from whom the piece was bought in 1930.
late 18th century
early 18th century
mid-14th–mid-15th century
second half of 14th–first third of 15th century
late 15th–early 16th century
mid-13th century