Oval bowl, flat handle, trefid end, beaded "rattail" bowl back, engraved with monogram, "H/ L*M," to underside of handle end, marked, "EW," to underside of handle.

Provenance

Jonathan Trace, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 2004
Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt: Highly Important American Silver, January 24, 2015, lot 717
A private New Jersey collection.

Literature

Kane, Patricia E., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven: 1998), pg. 956

Note

A matching spoon with the same monogram and mark is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, which is illustrated in Hood, Kathryn C. and Hood, Graham, American Silver: Garvan and Other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: 1997), no. 46, pg. 52-53. Two other examples are found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Heritage Foundation Collection.