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Tankard
John Burt (American, 1692/93–1745/46)
1725–30
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Credit Line
Gift of the Misses Rose and Elizabeth Townsend
Accession Number56.673
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 121
ProvenanceBuhler entry: Original owner unknown; William and Frances Mackay in 1775; probably Tristram Barnard, executor of Frances Mackay's will; his niece Frances Barnard, m. 1831 Thomas Carter Smith; their daughter Frances Barnard (b. 1832) m. thomas Townsend (1826-1880); their daughter Frances Barnard Townsend III (b. 1855), aunt of the donors.