Silver teapot

Samuel Edwards (1705-1762)

Boston ca. 1757

"An extraordinarily fine and fashionable" teapot for the time. Teapot belonged to Lucy Wainwright Dudley, wife of Paul Dudley, "the chief justice of MA and a member of the Royal Society (for contributing a paper on the manufacture of maple syrup). Famed for his aristocratic manner, Dudley was instrumental... in modernizing court procedures and documents." Details of Teapot