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Teapot

(Scottish, active in 1697–1730)
about 1710–20
Object PlaceAberdeen, Scotland
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Dimensions12.8 x 22 cm (5 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. John Lowell
Accession number1991.686
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
InscriptionsEngraved on side, "Elspeth Burnet m 1705/ Alexander Middleton Jr / Mary Middleton / May Lovell / Mary Lovell Pickard / Ann Bent Ware / Mary Pickard Winsor / Mary Pickard Winsor 2nd/Eleanor Trumbull m. 1942." Engraved on underside in monogram, A.B.W.; scratched on underside, T43980.
ProvenanceAccording to tradition, Elspeth Burnet, wife of Alexander Middleton, Sr., to their son, Alexander Middleton, Jr. (d. 1750), who married Ann Todd, to their daughter Mary Middleton (1736-1817), who married James Lovell (1737-1814/16), to their daughter Mary Lovell (1769-1812), who married Mark Pickard (1751-1823), to their daughter Mary Lovell Pickard (1798-1849), who married Henry Ware, Jr. (1794- 1843), to their daughter Ann Bent Ware (1830-1907), who married Frederick Winsor (1828-1889), to their daughter Mary Pickard Winsor (1860-1950), to her niece, Mary Pickard Winsor II (1896-1968), who married Walter Henry Trumbull (1893-1976), to their daughter, Eleanor Trumbull, who married John Lowell II, Lent by Mrs. John Lowell, February 25, 1971, Gift of Mrs. John Lowell, November 20, 1991
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1774–1809
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about 1690
Monogram
Robert Wilson
between 1825 and 1846
Robert Evans
about 1802
Porringer
Robert Evans
about 1800
Group shot: 1987.556-61
Robert Riddle Jarvie
about 1915
Group shot: 1987.556-61
Robert Riddle Jarvie
about 1915
Group shot: 1987.556-61
Robert Riddle Jarvie
about 1915
Robert Butler
1990
Group shot: 1987.556-61
Robert Riddle Jarvie
about 1915
Group shot: 1987.556-61
Robert Riddle Jarvie
about 1915