Dram cup Maker: Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)

ca. 1690

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

1 11/16 × 4 1/8 in. (4.3 × 10.5 cm)
other (Lip): 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1270

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Possibly originally owned by Silence Baker; Lois White; her grandson, Dwight Boyden Hopper, Boston; his daughter, Miss Leslie Dwight Hooper, Boston; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 391
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 41–43, fig. 23
  • 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. 1, p. 24, no. 15, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 39, no. 72
  • Hermann F. Clarke, "Jeremiah Dummer, Silversmith (1645–1718)," Antiques 28 (October 1935), 78, no. 16, pl. 6, ill
  • George Munson Curtis and Florence Virginia Berger, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911), 42, no. 371, pl. 10, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"I.D" over fleur-de-lis, in heart (on bottom).

Inscriptions

"SB" engraved at tip; "LW to DBH" added later on opposite side

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