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Beaker (one of four)

(American, 1655 or 1656–1722)
about 1716
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsOverall: 14.7 x 10.3 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by a friend of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture and the Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number1984.212
On View
On view
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
InscriptionsEngraved "E:Brattle to Mr Holyokes Church." in script on wall of vessel.
ProvenanceGiven of Edward Brattle (1670 – 1719), Marblehead, to the Second Congregational Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts (later called the Unitarian Universalist Church in Marblehead); 1984, purchased by the MFA from the church. (Accession date: June 13, 1984)

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