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

probably 1686

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

10 13/16 × 7 7/16 × 7 7/16 in. (27.5 × 18.9 × 18.9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1953.22.1

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Lighting Devices

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Possibly originally owned by Col. Peter Lidgett; David and Elizabeth (Usher) Jeffries; family of Dr. John Jeffries (1796-1876); Dr. John Jeffries' son, Dr. B. Joy Jeffries; his daughter, Marian Jeffries; her husband, J. Howard Means; gift in 1953 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Inventing Boston: Design, Production, and Consumption (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019), 158, fig. 183
  • 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), 188–89, no. 96, ill
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 100, fig. 94
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 390
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 99, 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), 39, 132–33, no. 138, ill
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 10–11, fig. 9b
  • 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. 15, no. 9, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), 73, no. 212, fig. 36
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), 57, no. 48
  • Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, 3 (New York: Ensko, Inc., 1948), vol. 3, p. 92, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver: Part 1, Seventeenth-Century Traditions," The Magazine Antiques 54 (December 1948), 416, 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), 38–39, no. 70, fig. 8
  • 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), 4–5
  • Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1936), 24, no. 86
  • Hermann F. Clarke, "Jeremiah Dummer, Silversmith (1645–1718)," Antiques 28 (October 1935), 145, fig. 5
  • Hermann F. Clarke and Henry Wilder Foote, Jeremiah Dummer: Colonial Craftsman and Merchant, 1645–1718 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935), 92–93, no. 9–10, pl. 5, ill
  • Edward Wenham, "Candlesticks and Snuffers by American Silversmiths," Antiques 18 (December 1930), 491, 493, fig. 1
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), no. 47–48, 379, pl. 61, ill
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 283–85, fig. 187
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 56, no. 93, 94, pls. 1, 2
  • John Henry Buck, Old Plate, Its Makers and Marks, 2d ed. (New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1903), 120–121, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

candlesticks

Marks

"I.D" over fleur-de-lis in heart, on stem

Inscriptions

Lidgett, Clarke, Usher, and Jeffries arms engraved on foot; "DIE" and "25-9" on bottom; "Made to Commemorate the marriage of David Jeffries and Elizabeth Usher 1686. Given by Dr. John Jeffries To his son Dr. B. Joy Jeffries 1876" added later on bottom

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