Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
"The Dunster Porringer"
View through Harvard Museums
Plain circular with flat trefoil handle pierced with trefoil, small circle and three crescents; the base engraved D over HE; with later applied oval patch engraved: "This belonged/to/Prest. Dunster/of/Harvard College Repaired 1854"
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Possibly the Reverend Jose Glover and his wife Elizabeth née Harris before 1638. Henry Dunster and either his first wife Elizabeth Glover (married 1641-43) or Dunster and his second wife Elizabeth Atkinson (married 1644-56) by descent; to Elizabeth Thomas daughter of Dunster and Elizabeth Atkinson bequest; to Henry Dunster (nephew of Elizabeth Thomas) 1729 to his son by descent; Henry Dunster by descent. Charles H. Baker [1] Mohegan Lake NY gift; to Harvard University 1931.
[1] Charles H. Baker is the grandson of Samuel Dunster of Attleboro a descendant of Henry Dunster
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Loan from Harvard University; Gift of Charles H. Baker
Title: "The Dunster Porringer"
Description:
Plain circular with flat trefoil handle pierced with trefoil, small circle and three crescents; the base engraved D over HE; with later applied oval patch engraved: "This belonged/to/Prest.
Dunster/of/Harvard College Repaired 1854".