Chapter 11
Silver Chocolate Pots of Colonial Boston
Gerald W. R. Ward,
Gerald W. R. Ward
The Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts, USA
Search for more papers by this authorGerald W. R. Ward,
Gerald W. R. Ward
The Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts, USA
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Howard-Yana Shapiro,
Louis Evan Grivetti
Professor Emeritos
Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA
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Director of Plant Science
Mars, Incorporated, McLean, Virginia, USA
University of California, Davis, California, USA
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This chapter contains sections titled:
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Introduction
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The Boston Chocolate Pots
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The “Excellent Nectar”
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Acknowledgments
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Endnotes
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References
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