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Detail: Crest
Candlestick (one of a pair)
John Noyes (American, 1674–1749)
1695–1700
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 x 16.2 cm (9 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Clara Bowdoin Winthrop
Accession Number54.594
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 90
DescriptionCut-cornered square moulded base with band of reeding; spiral reeding at base of stick; hollow moulded and reeded flange; fluted column, with stopped reeding and collar, with incised line, at flange. Moulded rim (broken). Bobeche in outline of base with a very deep (broken) bezel of two sheets moulded beneath and circle of spiral reeding on top.
Marks
Mark IN in oval on edge at left.
InscriptionsBowdoin crest with buckled motto circle on one corner.
Provenance1695/1700, Pierre Baudouin, later Peter Bowdoin (b. 1640 - d. 1706), Boston; to his son, James Bowdoin (b. 1676 - d. 1747); to his son, Gov. James Bowdoin (b. 1725 - d. 1790); to his daughter, Elizabeth M. Bowdoin (b. 1750 - d. 1809) and her husband, John Temple (b. 1732 - d. 1798); to their daughter, Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (b. 1769 - d. 1825) and her husband, Thomas Lindall Winthrop (b. 1760 - d. 1841); to their son, Robert Charles Winthrop (b. 1809 - d. 1894); to his son, Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr. (b. 1834 - d. 1905); to his daughter, Clara Bowdoin Winthrop (b. 1876 - d. 1969), Boston; 1954, gift of Clara Bowdoin Winthrop to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 13, 1954)