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Caudle cup
Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
about 1680
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 8.1 x 9.8 cm (3 3/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Philip Leffingwell Spalding Collection—Given in his memory by Katharine Ames Spalding and Philip Spalding, Oakes Ames Spalding, and Hobart Ames Spalding
Accession Number42.227
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
This cup was made for caudle, a drink of warm ale or wine mixed with bread, eggs, and thin gruel; sweetened with sugar; and flavored with spices. Caudle often was prepared for the sick and women in childbirth.
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 11
DescriptionFlaring lip. bulbous sides, flat depressed bottom with narrow (added) moulded baseband. Slight repairs inside. Cast scroll handles with slight ornament.
Marks
ID fleur-de-lis below in heart on bottom and side
Ada Mark * A14641
Ada Mark * A14641
InscriptionsEngraved G/ BS on bottom
Provenance1917, lent by Philip spalding; 1924, returned; 1928, relent; 1940, transfered to Mrs. Spalding; 1942, gift of Mrs. Spalding and children to MFA. (Accession date: April 9 and 16, 1942)