Two-Handled Covered Cup Maker: Edward Winslow (American, 1669–1753)

ca. 1710–15

American Decorative Arts

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

This imposing cup by the Boston silversmith Edward Winslow would have been used at festive gatherings to hold sweet, alcoholic beverages like Bishop, which were drunk communally from large bowls or two-handled cups. The restrained decoration epitomizes the Baroque style in American metalwork. The lobed finial and gadrooned bands on the lid, on the foot, and around the middle form a pulsating rhythm of light and shadow. This is one of two nearly identical American covered cups known to have survived. The other example, made by Winslow’s contemporary John Coney, is part of Harvard University’s ceremonial silver.

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

10 7/8 × 11 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (27.6 × 30 × 19.84 cm, 1265 g)
other (Lip): 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)
base: 5 9/16 in. (14.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1932.47

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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.

Provenance
Mrs.Edward Rantoul (née Lois Burnett, 1881–1961), Boston; Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; gift in 1932 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 92, 95–96, fig. 85.
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 977.
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 101, ill.
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 59–61, fig. 48.
  • 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. 64, no. 57, ill.
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part II, 1700–1750," Antiques 55, no. 2 (February 1949): 118, ill.
  • John Marshall Phillips, American Silver (New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949), 53.
  • Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, 3 (New York: Ensko, Inc., 1948), 13, 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), 83, no. 195, fig. 15.
  • Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1936), 31, no. 113.
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Six Two-Handled Covered Cups," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 7, no. 2 (June 1936): 23–24, ill. frontispiece.
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 64, pl. 38, ill.
  • E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of Europe and America (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928), 35, pl. 11, ill.
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 189, fig. 114.
  • 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), 125, no. 1021, pl.36, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"EW", fleur-de-lis below, in shield (on cover, and on body opposite arms).

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