Caudle Cup

CC0 Public Domain Designation

c. 1690

Jeremiah Dummer
American, 1645–1718
Boston

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

Artist: Jeremiah Dummer
Title: Caudle Cup
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. 1690
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Engraved on one side of of cup in script: MJ / to / AFA Maker's mark on side, in heart with fleur-de-lis below: I.D
Dimensions: 7.6 × 15.2 × 7.6 cm (3 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund
Reference Number: 1952.167
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Hermann F. Clarke and Henry W. Foote, Jeremiah Dummer, Colonial Craftsman & Merchant: 1645–1718 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1935) cat. 32.
David A. Hanks, “American Silver at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Magazine Antiques 98, no. 3 (Sept. 1970): 418–22 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), cat. 169.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 391.
Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 107, 109, fig. 4 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 42, cat. 4 (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. 4 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat.; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.

Hermann F. Clarke; with Ginsberg and Levy, Inc., New York, by 1952; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.

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