Tankard

c. 1729

John Burt
American, 1692/93–1745/46
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 166
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Burt
Title: Tankard
Place: Boston (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1729
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: 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"
Dimensions: 20.4 × 12.7 × 20.4 cm (8 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund
Reference Number: 1943.1
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E. A. Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, (Letchworth, England, 1913), p. 66 (ill.).
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.)
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 8 (ill.) p. 28.

The Art Institute, From Colony to Nation, 1949, cat. 143.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Tradition of American Silver, 1953, cat. 10.
The Art Institute, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, no. 175.

John Harrod, Boston, by 1729; given to the New North Church of Christ, Boston, 1729; church dissolved and work sold, 1862. Mrs. Roger Warner, before 1913. Mr. Francis P. Garvin (1875–1937), New York; to the Estate of Francis P. Garvan, 1937; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

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