c. 1740 Jacob Hurd 3/4 Pint Mugg for Thomas Deering - 18th Century Boston Coin Silver
$12,000.00
This early c. 1740 Jacob Hurd of Boston silver mugg was recently recovered in North Carolina from a family that traces their roots to Long Island. The cup has remained with the family by descent until now. It is an ultra scarce 3/4 pint (12 ounce) mugg. The mugg is finely engraved on the body opposite the handle with the arms of Thomas Dering (1720-85). Fully provenanced Boston hollowware of this caliber is exceedingly scarce, the vast majority of it held by museums and academic institutions.
According to an article in the East Hampton Star by Mayra Scanlon on Dering, "He was born in Massachusetts to Henry Dering (1684-1750) and Elizabeth Packer (1684-1747). In 1756, he married Mary Sylvester (1724-1794), who inherited property on Shelter Island when her father died. This estate is well known as Sylvester Manor. In the 1760s, when Thomas Dering's business in Boston failed, the family moved to Sylvester Manor. Thomas managed the manor there while serving as a delegate to the Third Provisional Congress and as Supervisor of Shelter Island. In 1776, when Long Island fell to the British, like many Long Islanders supporting independence, he fled to Middletown, Conn., with his wife and three children." The muggs are listed in the original inventory for Sylvester Manor circled in green) and the payment to Jacob Hurd for the silver is noted in the ledger of Thomas Dering.
Hurd's work is in the collections of the United States Government State Department collection, The Met, Yale, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MFA, Pilgrim Society, Detroit Institute of Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Wadsworth Athenium, Cleveland Museum of Art, MFA Houston, Carnegie Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, First Parish Church of Lexington MA, Winterthur, and many others.
Condition is perfect.
Weight is 231 grams.
Height is 4.25"
[Reference: Kane, mark variant D]
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According to an article in the East Hampton Star by Mayra Scanlon on Dering, "He was born in Massachusetts to Henry Dering (1684-1750) and Elizabeth Packer (1684-1747). In 1756, he married Mary Sylvester (1724-1794), who inherited property on Shelter Island when her father died. This estate is well known as Sylvester Manor. In the 1760s, when Thomas Dering's business in Boston failed, the family moved to Sylvester Manor. Thomas managed the manor there while serving as a delegate to the Third Provisional Congress and as Supervisor of Shelter Island. In 1776, when Long Island fell to the British, like many Long Islanders supporting independence, he fled to Middletown, Conn., with his wife and three children." The muggs are listed in the original inventory for Sylvester Manor circled in green) and the payment to Jacob Hurd for the silver is noted in the ledger of Thomas Dering.
Hurd's work is in the collections of the United States Government State Department collection, The Met, Yale, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MFA, Pilgrim Society, Detroit Institute of Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Wadsworth Athenium, Cleveland Museum of Art, MFA Houston, Carnegie Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, First Parish Church of Lexington MA, Winterthur, and many others.
Condition is perfect.
Weight is 231 grams.
Height is 4.25"
[Reference: Kane, mark variant D]
Check out some of my other US sterling silver hollowware here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP?ref=shop_sugg§ion_id=6783258
Or just browse around the shop!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP