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拍品 99 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERIC MARTIN WUNSCH
A SILVER CAUDLE CUP FROM THE FARMINGTON CHURCH
MARK OF JOHN HULL AND ROBERT SANDERSON OVERSTRUCK WITH MARK OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, BOSTON, CIRCA 1670
已結束2015年1月22日
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This caudle cup is a unique document of the close relationship between America’s first silversmiths, John Hull and Robert Sanderson, and Jeremiah Dummer, America’s first native-born silversmith. In 1659 John Hull engaged Dummer as an apprentice, noting in his diary “I received into my house Jeremie Dummer & Samuel Paddy to Serve me as Apprentices eight years. The Lord make me faithful in discharge of this new trust committed to me and let this blessing be to me and them.”
Gifts of silver to extremely puritanical congregations such as the Farmington Church were engraved with the initials of the congregation rather than the initials or coats-of-arms of the donor (as was the practice in most Congregational churches; see the silver from the Old South Church, lots 86-88). Accordingly, this cup is engraved with the initials FC for Farmington Church, and even this monogram is reserved for the base rather than the visible part of the silver. This cup has faint evidence of an earlier prick-engraved owner’s monogram, suggesting that when it was given to the Church, this “ostentatious” sign of ownership and patronage was erased from the side.
For information on Farmington Church, see note to lot 95.
CAPTIONS FOR MARKS:
Dummer’s mark over Robert Sanderson’s mark
Dummer’s mark over John Hull’s mark
Gifts of silver to extremely puritanical congregations such as the Farmington Church were engraved with the initials of the congregation rather than the initials or coats-of-arms of the donor (as was the practice in most Congregational churches; see the silver from the Old South Church, lots 86-88). Accordingly, this cup is engraved with the initials FC for Farmington Church, and even this monogram is reserved for the base rather than the visible part of the silver. This cup has faint evidence of an earlier prick-engraved owner’s monogram, suggesting that when it was given to the Church, this “ostentatious” sign of ownership and patronage was erased from the side.
For information on Farmington Church, see note to lot 95.
CAPTIONS FOR MARKS:
Dummer’s mark over Robert Sanderson’s mark
Dummer’s mark over John Hull’s mark