Description |
xiv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
Series |
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70 |
|
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70.
|
Contents |
The Complexity of Silver / Richard Lyman Bushman 1 -- Style, Form, and Function -- Chasers, the Chase, and Other Scenes on Boston Rococo-Style Silver / Patricia E. Kane 19 -- Colonial New England Silver Snuff, Tobacco, and Patch Boxes: Indices of Gentility / Madeline Siefke Estill 44 -- The Silver Chocolate Pots of Colonial Boston / Gerald W.R. Ward 61 -- Ecclesiastical Silver -- "We owe something more than prayers": Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship / Karen Parsons 91 -- Continuity and Change in New England Church Silver and Communion Practices, 1790-1840 / Barbara McLean Ward 113 -- Social Context -- Paul Revere and 1768: His Portrait and the Liberty Bowl / Jonathan L. Fairbanks 135 -- "The Pride Which Pervades thro every Class": The Customers of Paul Revere / Jeannine Falino 152 -- "Ancient and Valuable Gifts": Silver at Colonial Harvard / Janine E. Skerry 183 -- Regional Topics -- Glistening Reflections of Stability: The Roles of Silver in Early Maine / Edwin A. Churchill 213 -- "An influential and useful man": Samuel Bartlett of Concord, Massachusetts / David F. Wood 246. |
Note |
Includes index. |
|
"Printed at the Stinehour Press" -- Colophon. |
Subject |
Silverwork, Colonial -- New England -- History.
|
|
Silverwork -- New England -- Design -- 17th century.
|
|
Silverwork -- New England -- Design -- 18th century.
|
|
Silverwork -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
|
|
Silverwork -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
|
Added Author |
Falino, Jeannine J.
|
|
Ward, Gerald W. R.
|
|
Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
|
Added Title |
New England silver and silversmithing |
ISBN |
096207375X |
|