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Teapot
Jacob Hurd (American, 1702 or 1703–1758)
about 1750
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Silver
Credit Line
Bequest of Miss Mary Lincoln Eliot
Accession Number27.192
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 194
ProvenanceConjectured history of ownership begins with Elizabeth Vergoose, m. 1715 Thomas Fleet, printer (1685/6-1758); their son, Thomas (d. 1797), m. Elizabeth ____, her will written 1821, proved 1827 (the inventory included a teapot); their daughter Mary, m. Ephraim Eliot (Harvard College 1780, d. 1827), druggist, grandparents of the donor.