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Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)

Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 194

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n various ways. Achange took place,in England, in theshapes and decora-tion of the gold-smiths work In thethird quarter ofthe century when* consequent uponthe discoveriesmade in the courseof excavations atHerculaneum andPompeii, classicalforms wereadop tedin place of the ro-coco designs of… … 86. Jesse Churchill. H. 15! in. 164 Historic Silver of the Colonies These are of the quasi-classical shape withreeded edges and an engraved border of leavesand flowers. It was probably from some suchcup as the English one of 1781-82 in the FirstParish, Watertown, that the shape of the body ofthe…

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