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Goblet
1916
Object Place: Gardner, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Silver and gold
Dimensions
Overall: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dyann and Peter Wirth
Accession Number2021.689
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
DescriptionInverted bell-shaped goblet with round, stepped foot; chased monogram on side of body: JMS in a rectangle above a chased grapevine encircling the piece, accented with gold grapes beneath the monogram; band of rope twist just below rim
Marks
Marked on base: Stone logo with "T"
Provenance1916, commissioned by actress Julia Marlowe Sothern (b. 1865 - d. 1950). By March 1992, with Ark Antiques, New Haven, CT; March 1992, sold by Ark Antiques to Roy (b. 1930 - d. 1990) and Ruth (b. 1934 - d. 2013) Nutt, Seattle, WA; January 23, 2015, sold at Sotheby's New York (sale N09304, "The Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt: Highly Important American Silver," lot 318) to Peter Wirth, Boston; 2021, given by Wirth to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)