Covered cann Maker: Myer Myers (American, 1723–1795)

ca. 1750–1760

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
other (Lip): 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
base: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1049

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
R.T.H. Halsey, New York, NY; Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY.
Bibliography
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 146–47, fig. 154
  • 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. 2, p. 98, no. 655, ill
  • Exhibition of Works in Silver and Gold by Myer Myers: A Checklist of Objects Exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1954), no. 29
  • Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, Myer Myers, Goldsmith, 1723–1795 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1954), 104–5, pl. 8, ill
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), no. 49
  • Clara Louise Avery, American Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920), cxii–cxiii, fig. 32
  • R. T. Haines Halsey, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Silver Used in New York, New Jersey, and the South, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911), 38, no. 82
  • 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), 118, no. 414, ill
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 76, no. 205
  • John Henry Buck, Old Plate, Its Makers and Marks, 2d ed. (New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1903), 106, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"Myers" in conforming punch on bottom and under cover

Inscriptions

Appleton crest engraved on side; "AL" added later on front; "Myer Myers / Prest. N.Y. Silversmiths Society / 1776" added later on bottom

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