Tankard

c. 1705

Jeremiah Dummer
American, 1645–1718
Boston

Jeremiah Dummer was an apprentice to Boston silversmiths John Hull and Robert Sanderson, and in turn he taught the trade to Edward Winslow. This tankard is one of a small group made by Dummer that employs cut-card decoration. The designs on the rear of the tankard and the top of the lid were cut from a thin card of silver and applied to the surface of the tankard with liquid silver or solder.

Status: On View, Gallery 165
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jeremiah Dummer
Title: Tankard
Place: Boston (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1705
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Handle engraved in Roman capitals: B / IE Maker's mark on lid and on body, in heart with fleur-de-lis below: I.D
Dimensions: 15 × 10.2 × 17.8 cm (6 × 4 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund
Reference Number: 1985.780
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The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1985–1986 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), 20, fig. 6.
Patricia Kane, “Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers” (Yale University Press, 1998) p. 395.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 54–56, no. 6 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 5 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 5 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts: the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987.

Firestone and Parson Jewelers, Ritz–Carlton Hotel, Boston, by 1985; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.

Cat. 5 Tankard, c. 1705

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