Wine Cup

between 1705 and 1708

Jeremiah Dummer American, 1645-1718

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American: Higley Cottage, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

In this wine cup, Boston silversmith Jeremiah Dummer created contrasts between intricate three-dimensional decoration and smooth, flat fields of gleaming silver. Fluted lobes project from the bottom of the cup, while an elaborate pattern on its raised foot resembles the coiled fibers of a rope. Dummer made this cup for the communion service of the Third Church in Boston, a congregation that survives as the Old South Church. That later name was engraved on the cup long after Dummer made it.

Dummer was a leading silversmith in New England in an era when that precious metal was used as hard currency and as a medium to fashion luxurious objects. He reserved this fluted wine cup form for church commissions, making about twelve closely related examples that survive today for churches in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Title Wine Cup

Artwork Date between 1705 and 1708

Artist Jeremiah Dummer

Life Dates 1645-1718

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Silver

Dimensions Overall: 8 1/4 × 4 5/8 inches (21 × 11.7 cm)

Classification Silver

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Museum Purchase, Edward E. Rothman Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2017.39

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Inscriptions Engraved: Property | of the | Old South Church.

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between 1705 and 1708-2017, Old South Church, Boston;
2017-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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