Cream Pot

1765–76

Myer Myers
American, 1723–1795
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 167
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Myer Myers
Title: Cream Pot
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. 1765–1776
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: Myers Engraved on side, in cartouche: J M S
Dimensions: 14 × 6.7 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 2 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1990.101
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Stephen G. C. Ensko, “American Silversmiths and Their Marks III” (New York, 1948) p. 91.
Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, “Myer Myers, Goldsmith, 1723–1795” (Philadelphia, 1954) p. 111.
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1989–90 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1990), p. 41, fig. 25.
“Important Americana” (New York: Sotheby’s, 1991) mentioned in lot 115.
David Barquist, “Myer Myers: Jeweish Silversmith in Colonial New York” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001) no. 76 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 25 (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. 25 (ill.).

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, Sept. 14–Dec. 30, 2001, cat. 76 (ill.); Los Angeles, Skirball Cultural Center, Feb. 20–May 26, 2002; Delaware, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, June 20–Sept. 13, 2002.

With Jonathan Trace, Putnam Valley, NY, by 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

Cat. 25 Milk Pot, 1765/76

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