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Trencher salt
John Coney (American, 1655 or 1656–1722)
1690–1700
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall (h x dia. at base): 5.4 x 8.4 cm (2 1/8 x 3 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Harriet A. Hill in memory of her mother, Abigail Brigham Hill
Accession Number15.912
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 45
DescriptionCircular moulded flaring base, concave sides; gadrooned band on shoulder surrouneding shallow circular salt receptable with moulded edge.
Marks
IC fleur-de-lis below in shaped heart in bowl
InscriptionsEngraved SM in block letters on the side, for Sarah Middlecott
ProvenanceSarah Standish Payne (1639-1726); by descent to Harriet A Hill (1); July 9, 1914, lent by Miss Hill to MFA; 1915, gift of Miss Hill to MFA. (Accession date: July 15, 1915)
1: Sarah (Winslow) Standish Payne, third marriage 1672 to Richard Middlecott; their daughter Sarah (b. 1678), m. Louis Boucher 1702; their daughter Sarah (b. 1705), m. John Foye; their daughter Elizabeth (b. 1735), m. David Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts; their daughter Abigail (b. 1771), m. Willard Brigham of Marlborough, Massachusetts; their daughter Abigail (b. May 22, 1807) married at Rindge, New York, October 12, 1836, to Joseph Hill, West Cambridge, Massachusetts; their daughter Harriet A Hill.
1: Sarah (Winslow) Standish Payne, third marriage 1672 to Richard Middlecott; their daughter Sarah (b. 1678), m. Louis Boucher 1702; their daughter Sarah (b. 1705), m. John Foye; their daughter Elizabeth (b. 1735), m. David Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts; their daughter Abigail (b. 1771), m. Willard Brigham of Marlborough, Massachusetts; their daughter Abigail (b. May 22, 1807) married at Rindge, New York, October 12, 1836, to Joseph Hill, West Cambridge, Massachusetts; their daughter Harriet A Hill.