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Dram Cup
Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
1670–90
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 3.3 x 6.4 cm (1 5/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Philip Leffingwell Spalding Collection—Given in his memory by Katharine Ames Spalding and Philip Spalding, Oakes Ames Spalding, and Hobart Ames Spalding
Accession Number42.228
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 9
DescriptionSlightly tapering sides curving at base to depressed bottom (dented). Rope handles in scroll form, circular in section, have freestanding tips, lower tips flattened. Battered and one handle bend.
Marks
ID fleur-de-lis below in heart on side
InscriptionsEngraved IL on bottom
Provenance1917, lent by Philip spalding; 1924, returned; 1928, relent; 1940, transfered to Mrs. Spalding; 1942, gift of Mrs. Spalding and children to MFA. (Accession date: April 9 and 16, 1942)