Dish Ring Maker: Myer Myers (American, 1723–1795)

1770–76

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
other (Lip): 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
base: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.136

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Samuel and Susannah (Mabson) Cornell, New York; Catherine (Cornell) Campbell (1786-1813); her husband, Duncan P. Campbell, New York; his daughter, Miss Lety Campbell; Justine Van Rensselaer Hooper, Boston, Mass.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY (1936).
Bibliography
  • Dean F. Failey, Deborah Dependahl Waters, and David L. Barquist, Elias Pelletreau: Long Island Silversmith and Entrepreneur 1726–1810, ed. Jennifer L. Anderson, exh. cat. (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Preservation Long Island, 2018), 17, 136–137, fig. 5-1
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 204, no. 108, ill
  • David L. Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 176–77, no. 79, cover ill., ill
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 105, ill
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 42, 157, no. 164, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 132–33, fig. 133
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 79, fig. 74
  • Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, pp. 102–3, no. 659, ill
  • Masterpieces of American Silver: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 15–February 14, 1960, exh. cat. (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1960), 76, no. 193
  • John Marshall Phillips, Early American Silver Selected from the Mabel Garvan Collection, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1960), no. 23, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), 76, no. 262
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), 81, no. 217
  • Exhibition of Works in Silver and Gold by Myer Myers: A Checklist of Objects Exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1954), no. 46
  • Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, Myer Myers, Goldsmith, 1723–1795 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1954), 112, pl. 13, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of Silver at Yale University," Connoisseur Year Book (1953), 74–75, pl. 17, ill
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 99, 119, no. 192, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part IV, Rococo and Federal Periods," Antiques 56 (July 1949), 44, ill
  • An Exhibition of Early American Silver, January 1st to 28th, 1945, in the Morgan Memorial of the Wadsworth Atheneum, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1945), 17, no. 124, ill
  • An Exhibition of Silver: French, British, American, Modern, exh. cat. (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1940), no. 266
  • V. Isabelle Miller, Silver by New York Makers, Late 17th Century to 1900, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1937), 21, no. 201
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Additions to the Garvan Collection of Silver," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 8, no. 1 (June 1937), 9–10, ill
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 152, pl. 59, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"Myers" in small conforming punch, twice on side in areas especially cut for marks.

Inscriptions

"SSC" ornamented monogram engraved on side, on heart-shaped reserve.

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