MARK OF MYER MYERS, NEW YORK, 1764

细节

A GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING
MARK OF MYER MYERS, NEW YORK, 1764
Circular, with black enamel and gold scrolls, with a facetted paste stone set over a printed paper death's head, the ring inscribed 'John Stroud OB. 20 Feb. 1764, AE. 53', marked on interior
7/8 in. diameter

出版

The Darling Foundation of New York State Early American Silversmiths and Silver, New York State Silversmiths, 1964, illus. p. 131.

注意事项

No sales tax is due on the purchase price of this lot if it is picked up or delivered in the State of New York.

拍品专文

During the eighteenth century mourning rings were given as tokens of the deceased. The estate usually paid for the cost of the rings, and individuals left them to pallbearers, relatives, and clergy. This custom was social rather than religious, and was followed by Jews as well as Christians.

Myer Myers made another very similar mourning ring in the same year for Anna Maria Panet, now in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York and illustrated in Deborah Dependahl Waters, Elegant Plate: Three Centuries of Precious Metals in New York City, Vol. I., cat. no. 46. Two other mourning rings by Myers are illustrated in David Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, 2001, plates 49-50.

John Stroud (1711-1764) was married to Mary Woodward (1715-1790) from Chester County, Pennsylvania.