Description:
Circular silver sugar bowl and domed cover with a low reel-shaped molded handle and finely-chased, baroque band of acanthus-leaf decoration around the top, and a plain urn-shaped body supported on a molded, splayed foot, which is marked "P.REVERE" in a rectangle once on base for Paul Revere, Sr (1702-1754). The bowl was made for the Honorable Andrew Oliver (1731-1799) of Boston who married Mary Lynde (1733-1807) in 1752. Oliver was the son of Andrew Oliver (1706-1774), the Secretary and Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, and Lynde was the daughter of Benjamin Lynde (1700-1781), the Chief-Justice of Salem. According to the dealer, Ginsburg & Levy Inc., this bowl was purchased from the descendents of the original owner. The beautiful and simple form derived from the shape of Chinese export porcelain covered rice bowls being exported to the West. There is a similar sugar bowl with cover made between 1738-1745 by Simeon Soumaine (1685-1750/51) of New York at the Yale University Art Gallery; and the Boston MFA has is a very similar sugar bowl dated circa 1746 by Boston silversmith John Coburn (1725-1803). According to Janine Skerry, Curator of Metals at Colonial Williamsburg, she believes that the Coburn bowl was made by Paul Revere Sr. and sold/marked by Coburn under his name. Paul Revere Sr. was a Huguenot, originally named Apollos Rivoire, who came to Boston by way of Guernsey Island in the English Chanel in 1716. He was apprenticed to John Coney (1655/56-1722) until Coney's death in 1722, and finished his apprenticeship with another Boston goldsmith. He trained his son Paul Revere, Jr. (1734-1818).
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