. Early silver of Connecticut and its makers . rticles of silver and gold. In the eighteenth century the colonisthad greater wealth, and life had becomemore formal, and luxury more a result, the silversmith had increasedthe variety of his manufactures, and usedmore elaborate designs, although he stillclung to a simplicity of line and form thatwas characteristic of all early industrial artin America. Although the earliest known silversmiths /in New England had either learned theircraft in England or been taught the tradeby English workmen, there was no attemptto adopt later the elabor
. Early silver of Connecticut and its makers . rticles of silver and gold. In the eighteenth century the colonisthad greater wealth, and life had becomemore formal, and luxury more a result, the silversmith had increasedthe variety of his manufactures, and usedmore elaborate designs, although he stillclung to a simplicity of line and form thatwas characteristic of all early industrial artin America. Although the earliest known silversmiths /in New England had either learned theircraft in England or been taught the tradeby English workmen, there was no attemptto adopt later the elaborate baronial de-signs of the mother country. Simplerforms were more in keeping with the simplelife of this country. * Captain Giles Hamlin of Middletown (died in 1689 ae. 67)was a prominent figure in the early days of the Colony; he wasthe owner of a silver hat-band which he bequeathed to his portrait of Pocahontas dated 1616 depicts her crowned witha mannish headgear, encircled by a golden hat-band. [7] Seventeenth Century Plate. Caudle Cup
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