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A RARE AMERICAN SILVER PEPPER BOX
Lot 294

A RARE AMERICAN SILVER PEPPER BOX

MARK OF BARTHOLOMEW GREEN, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1730

Closed21 January 2022

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A RARE AMERICAN SILVER PEPPER BOX
MARK OF BARTHOLOMEW GREEN, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1730
Octagonal with pierced domed cover and scroll handle, engraved on the front with block initials T / I*L, marked on underside (Kane mark A)
3 3⁄4 in. (9.5 cm.) high
2 oz. 6 dwt. (72 gr.)

Specialist note

Bartholomew Green (1697 - c. 1746) was born in Boston as the son of a mariner. Very little is known about his life or training as a silversmith, with previous suggestions of his apprenticeship to Henry Hurst lacking source evidence. Patricia E. Kane only notes three works which can be attributed to Bartholomew Green (P. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 506), two porringers and a spout cup in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (Acc. No. 20.1844).