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Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
1680–1700
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Overall: 4.4 x 12.2 cm (1 3/4 x 4 13/16 in.)
Length (of handle): 508 mm (20 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Esther Jackson and Mrs. Percy O. Daley
Accession Number59.1000
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware

Catalogue Raisonné Buhler, 1972, No. 17
DescriptionBowl has curved sides, slightly everted rim and domed center. Handle pierced in simple design with heart near tip.
Marks ID fleur-de-lis below in heart at right of handle
InscriptionsAP near tip. On bottom 6 oz 6 d
Provenance1944, lent by Robert Tracy Jackson to MFA; to Miss Esther Jackson and Mrs. Percy O Daley; 1959 gift of Miss Jackson and Mrs. Daley to MFA. (Accession date: Dec 10 1959)