ID 1122312
Lot 402 | AN AMERICAN GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
MARK OF MYER MYERS, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1768
the exterior with three bands of black enamel, the interior engraved Phil Philipses ob. 9 May 1768 AE 43 Y 8 M, marked on interior (Rosenbaum mark 3, Barquist mark 6)
7⁄8 in. (2.2 cm.) diameter
2 dwt. (3 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
In honor of Philip Philipse (1724-1768).
With Vincent D. Andrus (1915-1962).
With Ginsburg and Levy, New York, by the 1960's.
With Jonathan Trace, New York, by the 1980's.
Acquired by the present owners from the above.
Literature
Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, Myer Myers, Goldsmith: 1723-1795, Philadelphia, 1954, p. 116, plate 6.
Peter J. Bohan, American Gold 1700-1860, exhib. cat., New Haven, 1963, pp. 20-21, 43, no. 105.
Peter J. Bohan, "Early American Gold," Antiques, December 1965, pp. 817-818, fig. 17.
David Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, New Haven, 2001, p. 56, p. 73 nn. 287-288.
Exhibited
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, American Gold 1700-1860, 2 April-28 June 1963, no. 105 (lent by Ginsburg and Levy).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long term loan, 2009-2022.
| Artist: | Myer Myers (1723 - 1795) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Artist: | Myer Myers (1723 - 1795) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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