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Urn
1851–71
Object Place: Dorchester, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Silverplate
Dimensions
Overall: 47 x 30.5 x 24.1 cm (18 1/2 x 12 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jonathan and Louisa Fairbanks
Accession Number2004.2207a-b
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
DescriptionLarge silverplated urn with a round foot decorated with band of leafage; reel baluster stem; large urn with band of grape leaves at base and at top; spigot extends from lower band of leaves and is fitted with an inverted-lyre-shaped handle; detachable lid with bezel rising to cast eagle with spread wings and with talons grasping a globe, with cast leafage below.
Marks
Marked on underside of urn with Gleason & Sons "Massachusetts State Seal" mark. "32" scratched into underside of lid.
Inscriptions"32" scratched on undersid of lid; modern paper sticker with "1295" in blue ink affixed on underside of lid, along with a second sticker inscribed in blue ink, "6276/1295;" modern sticker affixed inside urn reads, "D651 [or 0651] [in blue ink] /111 [in red ink]."
ProvenanceEarly history unknown; purchased at auction (possibly a Northeast Auction) by Jonathan Fairbanks about 1999.