Porringer Maker: Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
Maker: René Grignon (American, ca. 1652–1715)

ca. 1700

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)
other (bowl): 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
other (Handle): 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1931.754-

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, Made in Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

17th–18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Possibly originally owned by James and Elizabeth (Andrews) Rayner; Miss A. M. Goodwin; Mrs. J. Bertram Read; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1931; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Tessa Murdoch, ed., Beyond the Border Huguenot Goldsmiths in Northern Europe and North America (Eastbourne, England and Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2008), 72
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 392, 520
  • 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. 27, no. 20, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), 61, no. 75
  • E. P. Richardson, The French in America, 1520–1880, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1951), no. 341
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver; Part I, Seventeenth-Century Traditions," Antiques vol. 54, no. 6 (December 1948), 413, 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), 49, no. 100
  • A. R. Chase, "Rene Grignon, Silversmith," Antiques 34 (July 1938), 26–27, ill
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 305–306, fig. 205
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 63, no. 131
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

porringers

Marks

Erased "I.D" over fleur-de-lis, in heart, at lip to left of handle; "RG" crowned, heart below, in conforming punch, (twice on bottom).

Inscriptions

"IRE" engraved on handle toward bowl

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