Bowl
Arthur Stone
(American, born in England, 1847–1938)
Edgar L. Caron
(active 1924–1937)
1923
Object PlaceGardner, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsOverall: 6.7 x 50 cm (2 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit LineSeth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession number1978.250
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
Edgar Caron made this adaptation of a Paul Revere bowl in 1923, soon after leaving F. W. Smith Company, a commercial silverware firm. Caron became a master craftsman in the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, and specialized in hollowware fabrication in Stone’s shop from 1924 to 1936.
Such diminutive bowls were first used as drip bowls, with a tea strainer. Later clients used them as small sugar bowls to accompany a creamer on breakfast trays.
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.
ProvenanceArthur and Elizabeth Bent Stone estate to their companion Annie E. Priest; by descent to Alma Bent, Stone’s cousin, from whom the Museum purchased the piece.
