MARK OF MYER MYERS, NEW YORK, 1755-65

Details

A PAIR OF SILVER SALT CELLARS
MARK OF MYER MYERS, NEW YORK, 1755-65
Each circular, on three shell feet with shell joins, with everted gadrooned rim, engraved faintly with a crest, the bases engraved A over I:E, marked twice under base with Myers mark 4, one base engraved 6 oz 10 - the pair
2 ¾ in. (6.9 cm.) diameter; 6 oz. 10 dwt. (203 gr.)

Provenance

Mark Bortman (1896-1967), collector, Boston
Jane Bortman Larus, Boston

Literature

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Early American Jewish Portraits and Silver, 1953, no. 35-43
Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, Myer Myers, Goldsmith 1723-1795, 1954, p. 117

Exhibited

"Early American Jewish Portraits and Silver," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1953, no. 35-43

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Lot Essay

Jeanette Rosenbaum illustrates another pair of cellars of the same design in Myer Myers, Goldsmith 1723-1795. They were formerly owned by James Nicholson, Senior Commodore of the Continental Navy. A single salt cellar of this form sold in these Rooms, 22 January 1993, lot 239, and a pair of salt cellars, with spoons, sold Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 1993, lot 440.

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