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A cup with a carved inscription.

A silver cup which flares out slightly at the top. It is smooth polished silver, undecorated except for a three-line inscription etched at the center of the cup in script which reads “ Ex dono James Babcock – to the Church in Wrentham – 1699” next to 1699 there is a stamp which seems to be a heart with “ID” at the center of it.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.82
People
Jeremiah Dummer, American (Newbury, MA 1645 - 1718 Boston, MA)
Title
The Wrentham Beaker
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1699
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/318701

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
257.98 g
13.2 × 9.7 cm (5 3/16 × 3 13/16 in.)
diameter at mouth: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • maker's mark: slightly double struck: "id" [enclosed in a heart]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly James Babcock, 1690s; Original Congregational Church, Wrentham, MA, 1699-2007.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1907, by exchange
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.82
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hermann Frederick Clarke and Henry Wilder Foote, Jeremiah Dummer, Colonial Craftsman and Merchant, 1645-1718, Da Capo Press (New York, 1970), p. 72, pl. 3
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow & John Marshall Phillips, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1998), p. 389
  • Thomas W. Lentz, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2006-7, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 18

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011
  • GenEd US12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 03/14/2022

Subjects and Contexts

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