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Caudle cup
Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
about 1680
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 7.9 x 8.1 cm (3 1/8 x 3 3/16 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 Number42.229
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 10
DescriptionBulbous body, slightly flaring rim, stepped flat base, no center point. Lower body embossed with running design of flowers and foliage; pounced scrolls in open areas and short lines of graduted punches form upper edge. The concave neck is less planished than Dummer's plain caudle cups in the MFA. Cast handles, the upper halves tightly scrolled at the joining, have bird's head shoulders swallowing lower sections, with midway scroll and upturned birds' heads on lower tips (both bird necks looking more scaled than feathered). One handle almost broken from neck.
Marks
ID fleur-de-lis below in heart twice on bottom and once on side
InscriptionsEngraved H/R.M on bottom. Faint trace that different initials might be beneath.
Provenance1928, lent to the MFA by Philip Spalding; 1940, transfered to Mrs. Spalding; 1942, gift of Mrs. Spalding and children to MFA. (Accession date: April 9 and 16, 1942)