New England silver & silversmithing : 1620-1815 /

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Imprint:	Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; [Charlottesville] : Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Description:	xiv, 281 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 70
Subject:	Silverwork, Colonial -- New England -- Congresses. Silverwork -- New England -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses. Silverwork -- New England -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses. Manners and customs. Silverwork. Silverwork, Colonial. New England -- Social life and customs -- Congresses. New England. Conference papers and proceedings. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6012758

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Varying Form of Title:	New England silver and silversmithing
Other authors / contributors:	Falino, Jeannine J. Ward, Gerald W. R. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
ISBN:	096207375X
Notes:	Essays based on presentations made at a conference held Apr. 19-20, 1996 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and co-sponsored by the Colonial Society of Mass. "Printed at the Stinehour Press"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
The Complexity of Silver
Style, Form, and Function
Chasers, the Chase, and Other Scenes on Boston Rococo-Style Silver
Colonial New England Silver Snuff, Tobacco, and Patch Boxes: Indices of Gentility
The Silver Chocolate Pots of Colonial Boston
Ecclesiastical Silver
"We owe something more than prayers": Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship
Continuity and Change in New England Church Silver and Communion Practices, 1790-1840
Social Context
Paul Revere and 1768: His Portrait and the Liberty Bowl
"The Pride Which Pervades thro every Class": The Customers of Paul Revere
"Ancient and Valuable Gifts": Silver at Colonial Harvard
Regional Topics
Glistening Reflections of Stability: The Roles of Silver in Early Maine
"An influential and useful man": Samuel Bartlett of Concord, Massachusetts
Index
Notes on Contributors

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