Two-Handled Bowl Maker: Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)

ca. 1690–1700

American Decorative Arts

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

The lobed rim of this bowl is unique in American silver. The bowl was made by the Boston silversmith Jeremiah Dummer, purportedly for Jane and Richard Pattishall. Its shape relates to Portuguese silver, which Dummer may have seen through his mercantile interests or through examples that were imported into Boston. The meandering band of flowers echoes the rounded forms of the lobes and recalls Stuart embroidery patterns.

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

4 3/8 × 9 × 6 7/8 in. (11.1 × 22.9 × 17.46 cm, 542 g)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1940.55

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Richard and Jane Pattishall; DeLancey Kountze, New York; gift in 1940 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 395
  • 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), 40, 135, no. 141, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 36, fig. 13
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 100, fig. 96
  • 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. 18, no. 10, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, Early American Silver Selected from the Mabel Garvan Collection, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1960), no. 4, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), 57, no. 49
  • John Marshall Phillips, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of Silver at Yale University," Connoisseur Year Book (1953), 71, pl. 5, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver; Part I, Seventeenth-Century Traditions," Antiques vol. 54, no. 6 (December 1948), 415, 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, no. 69
  • Hermann F. Clarke, "Jeremiah Dummer, Silversmith (1645–1718)," Antiques 28 (October 1935), 143, fig. 2
  • Hermann F. Clarke and Henry Wilder Foote, Jeremiah Dummer: Colonial Craftsman and Merchant, 1645–1718 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935), 78–79, no. 52, pl. 4, ill
  • 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), 152, ill
  • Ann Natalie Hansen, "Beakers and Bowls Part I," Silver 23, no. 1 (January–February 1990), 13
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels)

Marks

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

Inscriptions

"RPI" within small scrolled outline and "1692" engraved on side. "Nov. 2 1728" added above date; "GLS" and "JEW" added on lobes of the oppostie side; "May 14 1835" added below.

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