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Pair of wine coolers

about 1790
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueFused plate
DimensionsOverall: 22 x 34.3 x 23.2 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number41.616.1a-d
On View
On view
ClassificationsSilver
Collections
Inscriptionsnone
ProvenanceAbout 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.

Pair of wine coolers
Unidentified artist
about 1790
a-b
Sheffield
early 19th century
Cup
about 1810–30
Plate
about 1800
about 1800
Unidentified artist
late 18th century
Unidentified artist
late 18th century
Unidentified artist
about 1800
Unidentified artist
about 1800
Unidentified artist
about 1800
Unidentified artist
about 1800