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A SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP FROM THE FARMINGTON CHURCH
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A SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP FROM THE FARMINGTON CHURCH

MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL, SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1715

已結束2015年1月22日

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A SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP FROM THE FARMINGTON CHURCH
MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL, SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1715
Of cylindrical form with slightly everted rim, on circular base, the lower body with chased spiral fluting and a gadrooned mid band, S-scroll handles with diminishing beads, the base engraved F.C, marked on body on one side, and on other side near handle with Kane mark B
7 in. (17.9 cm.) wide over handles; 8 oz. 10 dwt. (271 gr.)

First Church of Christ, Congregational, Farmington, Connecticut, sold
Sotheby's New York, 21 January 2005, lot 420

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The Farmington Church was founded in 1652 by Thomas Hooker, an extreme Protestant minister who had escaped persecution in England to form a truly puritanical community in the new world. Hooker deemed the wilderness of central Connecticut as the ideal environment for a pure form of worship, and he established the First Church of Christ in Farmington. Silver given to puritan churches was engraved with the initials of the congregation rather than an individual donor. A caudle cup, also from Farmington Church, circa 1670, is offered as lot 99.

A similar two-handled cup by Cowell is in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated in Graham Hood, American Silver, 1971, p. 55.