Harvard Art Museums > 2016.208: The Francis Skerry Beaker Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Francis Skerry Beaker (Jeremiah Dummer) , 2016.208,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/349944. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2016.208 People Jeremiah Dummer, American (Newbury, MA 1645 - 1718 Boston, MA) Title The Francis Skerry Beaker Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date c. 1670 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/349944 Location Location Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850 View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Dimensions 11.4 × 18.4 × 8.5 cm, 0.6 lb. (4 1/2 × 7 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: on side, engraved: The gift of / Francis Skerry / to the Church / in Salem maker's mark: on side, punched: I D / [fleur-de-lys] [in heart shaped punch] maker's mark: bottom, punched: I D / [fleur-de-lys] [in heart shaped punch] inscription: bottom, red ink: 228.30 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Francis Skerry (c. 1606-1684), gift; to First Church, Salem, sold [through Christie's, New York, January 18, 2007, lot 60]; to Daniel Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel A. Pollack and Susan F. Pollack, Harvard Classes of 1960 and 1964 Accession Year 2016 Object Number 2016.208 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Cylindrical shaped beaker with “snakeskin matting” or stipple surface on the exterior. 18th-Century mold-strap handles added later. Publication History Florence Paull Berger and George Munson Curtis, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1911), p. 40, cat. no. 358, repr. as part of plate 10 E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, National Society of Colonial Dames of America (Letchworth, England, 1913), p. 419, repr. as pl. CXX-VII Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector, Funk and Wagnalls (New York, NY, 1970), p. 274-275, repr. p. 275 as fig. 221 Hermann Frederick Clarke and Henry Wilder Foote, Jeremiah Drummer: Colonial Craftsman and Merchant, 1645-1718, Da Capo Press (New York, 1970), pp. 61, 133 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. 595 Early American Silver 1670-1820, Including the Darling Foundation Collection and Silver from the First Church in Salem, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, January 18, 2007), pp.64-65, lot 60, repr. pp. 64-65 Laura Turner Igoe, "A Prize of Silver", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], June 22, 2017), http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/a-prize-of-silver, repr. "Harvard Art Museums Receive Important Gift of American Silver", Artfixdaily Artwire ([e-journal], March 22, 2022), https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6573-harvard-art-museums-receive-important-gift-of-american-silver, accessed March 24, 2022 Exhibition History American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries with a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 07/01/1911 - 12/01/1911 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 03/01/2025 Related Works 2007.82 Jeremiah Dummer The Wrentham Beaker Vessels 2016.207 Daniel Parker The Benjamin Pickman Tankard Vessels 2016.209 John Coney The Clarke/Cabott Tankard Vessels Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu