About This Artwork

Samuel Edwards
American, 1705-1762

Baptismal Basin, 1755

Silver
7.5 x 30.1 cm (diam.) (2 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Marked near the center on interior of bowl: "S. E" (under a crown and above a device in shaped shield); engraved around rim of basin: "The Bequest of Mr. John Willis to the Church of Christ in Medford 1755"
J. Peter McCormick Fund, 1988.445

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 75-76, no. 20.

Ownership History

The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.