John Lynch
Salver
1817
Physical Qualities
Silver, 8 × 12 × 1 in. (20.3 × 30.5 × 2.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Ethel Patterson Randolph
Object Number
1958.38.1
This unusual rectangular salver is engraved "Patterson" with initials "WPF" for a member of the Patterson family of Baltimore.
Batlimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1958; Ethel Patterson Randolph (1872-1957), Baltimore, MD likely by descent; Frederick Ethelred (1822-1914) and Olivia Claggett Patterson (1813-1907), Baltimore, MD likely by descent; William Presbury (1788-1865) and Francis Gould Patterson (1794-1860), Baltimore, MD
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 57, ill. 56.
Inscribed: Engraved: "WFP / Patterson"
Markings: 1. "LYNCH", struck on bottom of outer lip 2. "328112" etched on bottom 3. "86" etched on bottom 1818 assay marks: 1. Rectangular shield (Maryland flag in octagon shape), bottom of outer lip 2. Letter D within octagon, bottom of outer lip 3. Head of Liberty, bottom of outer lip
On View at the BMA
