Salver

Provenance

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.

Salver

Elias Boudinot

1748–53

Accession Number

93825

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

4.2 × 33.7 × 31 cm (1 5/8 × 13 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)

Classification

vessel for serving food

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Albert Pick Jr. Fund