Large American Coin Silver Repousse Wine Ewer with Family Provenance

Mid 19th century, with allover hand-chased grape and vine repousse decoration and naturalistic vine rim, shoulder, and handle; engraved "Caroline Hubbard / Sept. 14th 1854" to the front; to the underside "From Thomas D. Hubbard and J. Collins Baughman".

15 3/4 in.

39.45 troy oz.

The ewer was a gift to Caroline Hill Hubbard of Utica, New York (1828-1867), engraved with her wedding date of "Sept. 14th 1854" to her husband, Dr. Samuel Gardner Wolcott (1823-1883). The gift was from her brother Thomas Dering Hubbard (1823-1855) and another individual, J. Collins Baughman.

Caroline Hill Hubbard was born on the 10th of August 1828, in Utica, Oneida, New York, to her father, Thomas Hill Hubbard, and her mother, Phebe Hubbard. Caroline and her husband were the parents of at least one son and three daughters. She died on December 23rd, 1867, at the age of 39, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, Oneida, New York.

Caroline's husband, Dr. Samuel Gardner Wolcott, graduated Washington College (Trinity) in Hartford, Connecticut (1847), and Harvard Medical School (1850). He was a practicing physician in Utica, New York from 1852, and later in Boston. He remarried Emily J. Pierpont in 1875 after Caroline's passing.

Some scattered denting to the body.