Two-handled cup Maker: John Dixwell (American, 1680–1725)

ca. 1717

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

6 11/16 × 8 3/4 in. (17 × 22.2 cm)
other (Lip): 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
base: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1295

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Originally owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith (d. 1717); First Parish Church, Charleston, Mass.; I. Sack, Boston; Francis P. Garvan, New York (1926); gift in 1930 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), 382
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 114, 117, fig. 113
  • 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. 80, no. 82, ill
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 91, no. 160
  • 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), 36, no. 61
  • E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (Letchworth, England: National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1913), 123
  • George Munson Curtis and Florence Virginia Berger, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911), 37, no. 329, pl.9, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

cups

Marks

"ID" in large oval (on side and on bottom).

Inscriptions

"Ex Dono Mrs Elisa Smith / to the Church of Charlestown / April 12 1717" engraved on front.

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