Communion Dish

Samuel Minott American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 750

This dish is one of six—three marked by John Coburn and three by Minott—that are thought to have been purchased with Thomas Hancock’s bequest of one hundred pounds to the Brattle Street Church in Boston. Hancock was a wealthy Boston bookseller and an uncle of John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The arms engraved on the rim of the dish within an exuberant, asymmetrical Rococo cartouche, are those of the Hancock family.

Communion Dish, Samuel Minott (1732–1803), Silver, American

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Communion Dish, Samuel Minott (1732–1803), Silver, American
Communion Dish, Samuel Minott (1732–1803), Silver, American
Communion Dish, Samuel Minott (1732–1803), Silver, American
Communion Dish, Samuel Minott (1732–1803), Silver, American
Communion Dish, Samuel Minott (1732–1803), Silver, American

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