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Communion cup
Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
1700
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 19.4 x 11.1 cm (7 5/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously
Accession Number37.1172
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Yale University Art Gallery, since March 13, 1968
On display at Yale University Art Gallery, since March 13, 1968
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 23
DescriptionBowl has a very slight flare at rim, straight sides, lower part spirally gadrooned with chased dots and curves outlining upper edge of gadrooning. Base plain beyond applied disc with smaller disc ag junction of turned stem, two spool forms (lower obviously seamed) above pear-shaped baluster, cast rayed collar below, the scallops of which extend beyond small dome of flat foot with moulded edge, incised reeds on step, and flange with added strengthening rim. Edge of bowl cracked
Marks
ID fleur-de-lis below in heart on side below crack, at left of engraving, and on foot
InscriptionsEx dono / Mr. Joshua & / Mrs. Hanna / Bangs / To The Church of Eastham / 1700.
Provenance1700, gift of Joshua Bangs (d. 1709/10), m. Hannah Scudder, to the Church of Eastham, Massachusetts; presumably when Easthem and Orleans became separate towns, the cup was returned to the Bangs' descendants. 1937, sold by Bangs decendant, Misses Stearns, through Philip L. Spalding to the MFA for $3000. (Accession date: November 17, 1937)