Collection Highlights
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Date:
Object Number:
LIB.QH41.C26.1974
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bowl
Object Number:
1951.91
Date:
1746-1763
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 x 8 3/4 in. ( 10.2 x 22.2 cm )
Silver Weight: 25 oz (troy) 10 dwt (793 g)
Marks:
engraved: on the base: "ozs" in script over, "26/ B/ T P" in block letters
stamped: in the center of the bowl: "MM" conjoined, in roman letters in a cartouche
Description:
Wrought silver bowl, deep, bowl-shaped body on a cast, applied molded foot; applied, molded, reeded band around the rim; engraved on the base, "ozs" in script over, "26/ B/ T P" in block letters; maker's mark in the center of the bowl.
Gallery Label:
This bowl belonged to Captain Thomas (d. 1763) and Phebe Barnes (d. 1788). Thomas Barnes was captain of a privateering vessel out of New York and Westchester during the Revolutionary War.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Sr.; The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection
Provenance:
Thomas (d. 1763) and Phebe (d. 1788) Barnes; by Phebe's will dated November 3, 1785, "my Gold Watch and my large Silver Punch Bowl" bequeathed to her daughter Phebe (Barnes) Tolmie (d. 1795). Subsequent ownership uncertain; Phebe Tolmie bequeathed "one Silver milk Pot" to her unmarried sister Philena, "my wearing Apparel & Jewels" to her niece Pheba Cummings, and the remainder of her estate to her nephew David Harris. Exhibited during 1940s at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from "the collection of Ahline Jones"; sold in 1949 by the dealers James Graham & Sons of New York, acting as an agent for "a descendant of the original owners, Thomas and Phoebe [sic] Barnes," to the collector Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
