Covered Cup

1764–75

Myer Myers
American, 1723–1795
New York

Period accounts refer to this form as either a Bishop or a Grace cup. Bishop was a drink made with wine, lemon, and sugar mixed with spiced port. The term Grace refers to the mealtime prayer, after which the cup was passed around the table. The cup’s form is a later interpretation of the 17th-century caudle cup and the early-18th-century covered cup, examples of which are on display in the galleries.

Status: On View, Gallery 166
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Myer Myers
Title: Covered Cup
Place: New York City (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. 1764–1775
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked in script within a shaped rectangle on bottom and on outer cover flange: "Myers" Weight scratched inside bottom: "oz/76/pw/18"
Dimensions: 35.6 × 29.2 × 17.8 cm (14 × 11 1/2 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Elsie O. Sang in memory of Philip D. Sang
Reference Number: 1978.421a-b
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Jane Bentley Kolter, ed., Early American Silver and its Makers (New York: Mayflower Books, 1979), 130–131 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, “Myer Myers, a Toast with a Silversmith of Colonial New York,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 73, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1979): 11 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 81 (ill.).

Made for a member of the Stuyvesant Family of New York; by descent to Elizabeth Stuyvesant (1775-1854) (m. Col. Nicholas Fish, 1803); to their daughter, Elizabeth Fish Morris, New York; by descent to her great-granddaughter; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Feb. 10-11, 1961, lot 309, to Philip D. Sang (1902–1975), Chicago; given to his wife, Elsie O. Sang (Mrs. Philip D. Sang, 1906–1997), Chicago, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Cats. 24–25 Salver, 1755/65; Milk Pot, 1765/76

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