Cann

1735–50

William Cowell Jr. (American, 1713–1761)
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 167
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: William Cowell Jr.
Title: Cann
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. 1735–1750
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Maker's mark, in conforming rectangle: W. Cowell Engraved on handle: I / F.M. Engraved on front: arms of Lowell impaling Greenleaf Scratched on bottom: E13254
Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.3 × 8.9 cm (5 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. C. Phillip Miller
Reference Number: 1953.611
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Patricia E. Kane et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998) p. 346.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 17 (ill.)
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 17 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 179.

Florence Randolph, New York, by 1938; with Parke-Bernet, New York, December 3, 1938, lot 13. With Robert Ensko, New York, by 1953; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

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