MARK OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, BOSTON, CIRCA 1705

Details

A SILVER WINE CUP
MARK OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, BOSTON, CIRCA 1705
The side later engraved Property / of the / OLD SOUTH CHURCH, marked on side and on foot with Kane mark A
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high; 11 oz. 16 dwt. (369 gr.)

Literature

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Church Silver, 1911, p. 39 (no. 342)
E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of American Churches, 1913, p. 49, illus. pl. XX
Hermann F. Clarke and Henry W. Foote, Jeremiah Dummer, Colonial Craftsman & Merchant 1645-1718, no. 47
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 396

Lot Essay

A pair of cups, of the same form and also mark of Jeremiah Dummer were sold property of the First Parish Church, Dorchester; Sotheby's, New York, 20-21 January 2012, lot 108.

Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718) was America’s first native-born silversmith. In 1659 he began his apprenticeship with émigré John Hull, first mintmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, creator of the famed “Pine-Tree” shilling. Dummer himself trained John Coney, with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship.

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