Description:
Silver cann with a has a wide, pear-shaped body with an incised reed at lip; stepped low-domed foot; and applied hollow S-shaped handle with flat furl and a tab-shaped drop at the top juncture, a flat oval reinforcement at the lower juncture, and terminates in a dommed oval, which is marked "Hurd" in a shaped cartouche for Jacob Hurd (1702/3-1758) and engraved with "M C" on the handle. Jacob Hurd has long been recognized as one of the leading New England silversmiths of the mid-18th century. The patriarch of a prominent Boston silversmithing family, he produced a wide range of tablewares in the Queen Anne style. Drinking vessels with a bulbous shape and without lids were popular in the colonies from the 1720s to around 1800; canns varied little in shape other than in their handles, which tended to be double-scrolled starting in the mid 1700s.
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