The Patriot: Three Important Silver Works by Paul Revere from a Private ཧAmꦡerican Collection
An American Silver Creamer, Paul Revere II, Boston, 1793
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
helmet form with fluted sides and square base, engraved with scrolling borders on lined ground above swags of flowers entwined with swags of bellflowers, oval medallion below spout monogrammed JAB, apparently unmarked
6 oz
186.6 g
height 7 1/4 in.
18.4 cm
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Joseph and Anna Blake, Boston
Philip H. Hammerslough Collection, Hartford, CT
Lansdell K. Christie Collection, sold, ♉Parke Bernet, New York, May 17, 1968, lot 198 and cover illustration
Philip H. Hammerslough and Rita F. Feigenbaum, American Silver Collected by Philip H. Hammerslough, vol. I, Hartford, Connecticut, 1958, ♋pp. 68–69, illus.
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, Yale, 1998, p. 815
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mid 20th Century (It was noted in the H𝔉ammerslough book t🅺hat the tea set, including creamer, was on exhibition there for over 20 years.)
This creamer was part of a set including a teapot and stand, each engraved with the initials JAB. The set is recorded in Paul Revere's "Day Book" on March 26th, 1793. The weights of each piece are listed there, with the creamer noted at 6 oz 5 pe. The stand was the only pi🌳ece marked and bears the REVERE mark (Kane mark B).
The initials are those of Joseph (1766–1802) and Anna Blake, married in Boston on January 6, 1793. Rosanna "Anna" Blꩵack was born in 1770 in Boston to Andrew Black, a prosperous shipping merchant of Boston, and Rachell Harvey. She married Joseph Blake, Jr., a son of the former partner of her father. In 1810, Anna received an inheritance of $1000 from her uncle, where she is noted as a widow. She remarried January 31, 1813 to Benjamin Whitman. She died December 2, 1848 in Dorchester, Massachusetts at the age of 78 and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
