Description:
Silver pear-shaped cream pot on three cabriole legs marked "Z.B" in a rectangle for Zachariah Brigden (1734-1787), and engraved "OB / to / MB" on the base. Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Zachariah Brigden began his apprenticeship in 1748 with silversmith Thomas Edwards (1701-1755) and married his daughter, Sarah Edwards (1724-1768), in 1756. Brigden's day book for 1767-c.1775 survives and contains evidence on the range of wares that he made for retail customers, jewelers, and other goldsmiths; he seems to have specialized in selling supplies to other craftsmen including English tools, scales and weights. More than 120 pieces by Brigden are known to have survived, including a number of communion vessels for New England churches. Brigden provided church silver for the Connecticut River Valley, supplying two silver canns for the First Church of Christ in Springfield, Mass., in 1761, and a silver cann (previously unrecorded - HD L2000.1.9) for the First Churches of Northampton in 1785.
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