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Article: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century family silver.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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In 1895 George C. McWhorter (1822-1902) presented the New-York Historical Society with a silver cann (Pl. I) once owned by his great-grandfather, the Presbyterian minister and patriot Alexander McWhorter (1734-1807). Although made by the now-celebrated New York silversmith Myer Myers, the cann was cherished not for its superb craftsmanship, but for its association with a Revolutionary War chaplain and its status as a family relic. This inaugural donation of silver to the society was followed by many more gifts and bequests of family silver over the next century. Unlike silver collections in art museums, which are often shaped by the bold vision of a single collector or a ...
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