SAMUEL KIRK SILVER CASTLE PATTERN EWER, OF CHRISTIAN & CHINESE INTEREST

Description

SAMUEL KIRK COIN SILVER EWER, THE RESURRECTION, Ca. 1839
PRESENTED IS AN EXTREMELY RARE EWER CREATED  BY AMERICA'S FOREMOST SILVERSMITH OF THE PERIOD; SAMUEL KIRK OF BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1839;
THIS IMPORTANT SPECIAL-ORDER EWER IS DECORATED ALL OVER WITH  REPOUSSE FLOWERS, SCENES OF CASTLES IN JUNGLE, A CENTRAL ARMORIAL FLANKED BY CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS OF TWO CHERUBS HOLDING A  HARP AND A TRUMPET UNDER A TREE OF LIFE, A BOOK, A BEEHIVE? AND THE INSCRIPTION 'THROUGH' AND TWO BUTTERFLIES;
THE REMOVABLE COVER FEATURES A CHINA-MAN RISING OUT OF THE SMOOTH SURFACE;
THE INSCRIPTION TO THE INSIDE OF THE BASE READS "JAMES H. WILSON, PRESENTED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE COUSIN Mrs. PRISCILLA LOCKE";
THE WILSONS,  A PROMINENT AND DEVOUT BALTIMORE FAMILY, WERE ENGAGED IN COMMERCE, SHIP-BUILDING AND FINANCE-- PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING LINK FROM MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY;
HTTPS://www.mdhs.org/findingaid/wilson-papers-1790-1952-ms-833
THE JAMES H. (HAMILTON) WILSON REFERRED TO IN THE INSCRIPTION WAS THE BROTHER OF REV. FRANKLIN WILSON. THE  BOYS LOST THEIR MOTHER, MARY CRUSE, IN EARLY CHILDHOOD (1824),  AT WHICH TIME THEIR COUSIN PRISCILLA STANSBURY LOCKE, HERSELF A  THOROUGHLY DEVOUT CHRISTIAN, ASSUMED THE ROLE OF MOTHER TO THE BROTHERS;
WE BELIEVE  PRISCILLA PRESENTED  THIS EWER TO JAMES ON THE OCCASION OF  HIM BEING BAPTIZED. IN A BOOK BASED ON FRANKLIN'S JOURNALS AND PUBLISHED IN 1897, 'THE LIFE STORY OF FRANKLIN WILSON', THE REVEREND REFERS TO THIS EVENT IN THE WINTER OF 1839:
"A FEW WEEKS AFTER MY RETURN, Rev. Mr. KNAPP CAME TO BALTIMORE; A REVIVAL COMMENCED, AND IS NOW IN ACTIVE PROGRESS. THUS FAR,  ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED, AND THE WORK IS STILL GOING ON". A BELOVED BROTHER AND SISTER PROFESSED CONVERSION AT THIS TIME, AS ALSO MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.;
EXCELLENT CONDITION SAVE FOR SOME ABRASIONS TO THE EDGES OF COVER-- NO DENTS OR RESTORATIONS;
COVER AND BASE BOTH MAKED: SAM L. KIRK, S.K, 11 OZ;
HEIGHT: 16 1/8";
WEIGHT: 58 2/10 STANDARD OUNCES
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