Tankard
Benjamin Burt
(American, 1729–1805)
about 1786
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number36.459
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
ProvenanceGiven to Richard Devens (d. 1807) by the proprietors of the Charles River Bridge in 1786; by descent in the family to the twentieth century, when it was probably purchased by the donor.
