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"The Great Salt"
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Plain spool form, applied with reeded borders, the flat top with central well flanked by three cast free-standing outwardly curving scrolls with flared bases, the base engraved G over IE, the side under the rim later engraved (upside down): The Gift of Mr. Richard Harris of Cambridge. 1644
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Jose Glover ? passed to his wife Elizabeth upon his death 1639. Rector of Sutten in Surrey England. Planned to introduce printing to New Eng.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Harris) Glover from her husband Rev. Jose Glover at his death 1639 transferred to her brother Richard Harris. Transferred to brother in part payment of debt. Richard Harris Bequest to Harvard College 1644. The Great Salt was brought to America in 1638 by Jose Glover who hoped to establish the first printing press in America but who died during the trans-Atlantic voyage. In 1641 Glover's widow Elizabeth married Henry Dunster (1609-58/9) Harvard's first President. Upon her death in 1643 the salt was bequeathed to her brother Richard Harris probably a tutor at the College who left it to Harvard upon his death in 1644.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Loan from Harvard University Gift to Harvard College from Richard Harris 1644
Title: "The Great Salt"
Description:
Plain spool form, applied with reeded borders, the flat top with central well flanked by three cast free-standing outwardly curving scrolls with flared bases, the base engraved G over IE, the side under the rim later engraved (upside down): The Gift of Mr.
Richard Harris of Cambridge.
1644.