The original 1768 Paul Revere Bowl is in the collection of the MFA in Boston. And here is yet another example of pre-Revolution America pointing to the ancient liberties of their ancestral British Isles, through Magna Carta and King William III and Queen Mary II's Bill of Rights of 1689.
The Liberty Bowl honoured ninety-two members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives who refused to rescind a letter sent throughout the colonies protesting the Townshend Acts (1767), which taxed tea, paper, glass, and other commodities imported from England. This act of civil disobedience by the "Glorious Ninety-Two" was a major step leading to the American Revolution. The bowl was commissioned by fifteen members of the Sons of Liberty, a secret, revolutionary organization to which Revere belonged; their names are engraved on the bowl as are references to Englishman John Wilkes, whose writing in defence of liberty inspired American patriots
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