Vase

Stone’s chief assistants ably assimilated his hand and style, a fact well demonstrated by Herbert Taylor’s skillful combination of the elements of this vessel. Note the way that the applied silver-and-chased ornament complement and harmonize with the modulated shape and hammered surface. Taylor was head craftsman in Stone’s shop and achieved medalist status in the Society of Arts and Crafts. He helped fashion this delicate vase about the time that Stone created one of his most celebrated pieces of ecclesiastical silver, a gold monstrance for the Church of the Advent in Boston.

This text has been adapted from "Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000," edited by Jeannine Falino and Gerald W.R. Ward, published in 2008 by the MFA. Complete references can be found in that publication.