About This Artwork

John Burt
American, 1692-1746
Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Tankard, 1729

Silver
23.5 x 14 cm (9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscription scratched on base in 19th or 20th century script: "The Gift of Mr. John Harrod/ to the New North Church of Christ/ in Boston 1729" and "J. Harrod/1729"

Marked in Roman capitals left of handle and on bottom of base: "I BURT"
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund, 1943.1

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute, "From Colony to Nation," 1949, no. 143 (ill.)

Milwaukee Art Institute, "Traditiona of American Silver," 1953, no. 10.

The Art Institute, "The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years," April 23-June 19, 1977, no. 175, (ill.)

Publication History

Helen Mitchell Woodruff, "New England Church Tankard," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, XXXVII, (March 1943), ill.

"The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections..." 1951, no. 49 (ill.)