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Chafing Dish
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Piereced double-belly bowl with three scrolls around the rim. Bowl is set upon three feet. Turned wood handle.
Department of American Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Walker family Boston 18th century. [1] J.H. gift; to Mary C. Shannon c. 1849. [2] [King Hooper Shop Boston] sold; to Dorothy Draper Hamlen (d. 1970) Wayland MA before 1939 sold [through Parke-Bernet New York November 30 1946 lot 176]. Walter Morrison Jeffords (1882-1960) Glen Riddle Pennsylvania by descent; to Walter Morrison Jeffords Jr. (1915-1990) and Kathleen McLaughlin (d. 2003) sold [through Sotheby's New York October 29 2004 lot 680]. Daniel and Susan Pollack gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2020
Notes
[1] A book plate for Edward Walker (c.1739-1801) bears the same arms
[2] Per engraving on dish
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum The Pollack Collection gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64
Title: Chafing Dish
Description:
Piereced double-belly bowl with three scrolls around the rim.
Bowl is set upon three feet.
Turned wood handle.
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