Porringer Maker: Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)

ca. 1695

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)
other (bowl): 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
other (Handle): 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1388

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th–18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
R.T. Haines Halsey (1865–1942), New York, NY, before 1906–29; purchased by Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, NY, 1929–30; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 392
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 44–45, fig. 26
  • 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. 16, ill
  • Tradition of American Silver, exh. cat. (Milwaukee, Wis.: Milwaukee Art Institute, 1953), no. 2
  • 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), 40, no. 76
  • John Marshall Phillips, "A Silver Drinking Bowl by Captain Jeremiah Dummer," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 4, no. 3 (October 1932), no. 59
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 67, pl. 10, ill
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 307, fig. 208
  • 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), 43, no. 376
  • Henry W. Kent and Florence N. Levy, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909), vol. 2, p. 100, no. 317
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 55, no. 86, pls. 1, 17
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

porringers

Marks

"ID" over fleur-de-lis, in heart (on back of handle and in center of bowl).

Inscriptions

"BBP" originally engraved on handle, lower letters now worn; "10: oz: 10: dwt" scratched on bottom

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