Pair of wine coolers
Unidentified artist
about 1790
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueFused plate
DimensionsOverall: 22 x 34.3 x 23.7 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number41.616.2a-d
ClassificationsSilver
InscriptionsnoneProvenanceAbout 1790, Elias Hasket Derby (b. 1739 - d. 1799) and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield Derby (b. 1736), Salem, MA [see note 1]; by descent to their daughter, Elizabeth Derby (b. 1762 - d. 1814) and her husband, Nathaniel West (b. 1756), Salem; by descent to their daughter, Martha West (b. 1787 - d. 1851), Salem; 1838, gift of Martha West to Elizabeth Endicott (b. 1797 - d. 1866) and Augustus Perry (d. 1871?), Salem [see note 2]; 1871, by inheritance to their nephew, William Crowninshield Endicott (b. 1826 - d. 1900), Salem and Boston; 1900, by inheritance to his son, William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. (b. 1860 - d. 1936) and his wife, Louise Thoron Endicott, Boston; 1939, sold by Mrs. Endicott to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963) and Martha Codman Karolik (d. 1948), Newport, RI; 1941, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1941)
NOTES:
[1] The provenance is discussed by Edwin J. Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection (Cambridge, MA, 1941), p. 254, cat. no. 180. [2] The wine coolers were given as a wedding present.
