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AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER
Lot 393 PROPERTY FROM THE WUNSCH COLLECTION

AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER

MARK OF EDWARD WINSLOW, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1725

Closed19 January 2024

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AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER
MARK OF EDWARD WINSLOW, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1725
The pierced keyhole handle engraved with block initials B / WE, marked on upper rim near handle EW in a shaped cartouche (Kane mark C)
7 ¾ in. (19.6 cm.) long, over handle
7 oz. 18 dwt. (246 gr.)

For a member of the Boyleston family, Boston, Massachusetts.
With Gebelein Silversmiths Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, by 1975.

Specialist note

Another porringer by Winslow with the initials B / TS, probably created for Thomas Boylston (1691-1739) and Sarah Morecock (1696-1774), is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (Acc. No. 1976.640).