- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2020.194
- People
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Myer Myers, American (New York 1723 - 1795 New York)
- Title
- Soup Ladle
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1772
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369966
- Location
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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
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
198 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- maker's mark: reverse of handle, stamped: Myers [mark of Myer Myers]
- maker's mark: reverse of handle, stamped: Myers [mark of Myer Myers]
- monogram: handle, engraged: DR [monogram of Dorothea Remsen]
- Provenance
- Dorothea Remsen Brinckerhoff (1750-1834), New Jersey. [Sotheby's, New York, January 29, 1983, lot 130]. Private collection, Maryland, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, January 20-21, 2012, lot 96]. Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Pollack Collection, gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.194
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Shell-shaped bowl with downturned handle.
- Publication History
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Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 27, 1983), lot 130, repr.
David Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2001), p. 184, n. 2
Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 21, 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
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English and American Silver 1720-1910: The Enlightened Years, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 11/03/2001 - 01/13/2002
32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/14/2022 - 01/01/2050
- Related Works
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