Porringer
William Swan
(1715 or 1716–1774)
About 1750–55
Object PlaceWorcester, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.191
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
ProvenanceBuhler Entry: Katharine Chandler (1735-1791), m. c. 1755 Levi Willard (1727-1775); their daughter Katharine (1761-1831), m. John Amory, Jr. (1759-1832), January 15, 1792; their daughter Catherine Willard Amory (b. March 24, 1796), m. Henry Codman, grandfather of Martha Codman Karolik, to whom the pieces descended.
mid-15th century
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
Early 19th century
late 18th century
early 18th century
late 15th century (?)
mid-14th–mid-15th century
second half of 14th–first third of 15th century
late 15th–early 16th century
mid-13th century
Late 19th century (before 1890)