
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Covered Cup
Myer Myers · 1764–75
Provenance
Ownership history
- Made for a member of the Stuyvesant Family of New York; by descent to Elizabeth Stuyvesant (1775-1854) (m. Col. Nicholas Fish, 1803); to their daughter, Elizabeth Fish Morris, New York; by descent to her great-granddaughter; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Feb. 10-11, 1961, lot 309, to Philip D. Sang (1902–1975), Chicago; given to his wife, Elsie O. Sang (Mrs. Philip D. Sang, 1906–1997), Chicago, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Jane Bentley Kolter, ed., <em>Early American Silver and its Makers</em> (Mayflower Books, 1979), 130–131 (ill.).
- Milo M. Naeve, "Myer Myers, a Toast with a Silversmith of Colonial New York," <em>The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 73, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1979): 11 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., <em>American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Yale University Press, 2016), 81 (ill.).
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