Salver

1748–53

Elias Boudinot (American, 1706–1770)
Philadelphia

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

Artist: Elias Boudinot
Title: Salver
Place: Philadelphia (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. 1748–1853
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Engraved on bottom in Roman capitals: "H/HM" and in script: "ILMM" Engraved on top, in a cipher: "ISH" Marked twice on top
Dimensions: 4.2 × 33.7 × 31 cm (1 5/8 × 13 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Albert Pick Jr. Fund
Reference Number: 1977.48
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Milo Naeve, “Colonial Banking to Contemporary Collecting” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, 6 (November–December 1977), 1–7 (ill.).
Milo Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute, 1978) 11 (ill.).
“The Classical Presence in American Art” Magazine Antiques 114, 3 (September 1978) 500 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 26 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition of Philadelphia Silver 1682–1800, Apr. 14–May 27, 1956, cat. 40, as Tray.
Museum of FIne Arts, Boston, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters & Apprentices, 1956, cat. 272.

Henry Harrison (1714-1766; mayor of Philadelphia, 1762-63) and Mary Aspden Harrison (1719-1803; m. 1748), Philadelphia, c. 1748; probably by descent to George Harrison (1762-1845) and his wife, Sophia Francis (1769-1851; m. 1792); by descent to their great-niece, Mary Harrison White (1805-1875), wife of Reverend James Montgomery, D.D. (1787-1834; m. c. 1825). Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Pike Graves, both b. Newburyport, MA; by descent to their daughter, Nancy Graves (Mrs. Samuel Cabot), by 1956; Firestone and Parson, Boston, by 1977, sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

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