Pair of Serving Spoons | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1760–70

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: a: 11 7/16 in., 3 t oz., 10 dwt. (29.1 cm)
b: 11 3/8 in., 3 t oz., 13 dwt. (28.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1936.210a-b
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Flatware
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.

Bibliography

David L. Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 130, no. 43, ill

Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 229, ill

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. 106, no. 663, 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. 95–96

Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, Myer Myers, Goldsmith, 1723–1795 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1954), 126

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Additional information

Object/Work type

serving spoons

"Myers" in small conforming punch on back of handle, twice.

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