Sugar Bowl with Lid
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, sugar from large plantations worked by enslaved Africans in Barbados and Jamaica was one of the most lucrative commodities for British merchants and landowners.
Myer Myers, the owner of the silver workshop in New York City where this covered sugar bowl was created, was the only Jewish silversmith in the city. Interpreting European forms in functional wares, he also supplied the city’s synagogues with ritual silver. During the eighteenth century, although there was a small community of American Sephardic Jews living in New York and Newport, prejudice against non-Christian beliefs was strong throughout the colonies.
Caption
Myer Myers American, 1723–1795. Sugar Bowl with Lid, ca. 1800. Silver, 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (23.5 x 11.4 cm) weight (approximately): 390.87 grams (weighed by BMA conservation, plus or minus .10). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Stephen Ensko, 52.154a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 52.154a-b_PS22.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Maker
Title
Sugar Bowl with Lid
Date
ca. 1800
Medium
Silver
Classification
Dimensions
9 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (23.5 x 11.4 cm) weight (approximately): 390.87 grams (weighed by BMA conservation, plus or minus .10)
Markings
Myers (in script on rim of cover and bottom of urn)
Credit Line
Gift of Stephen Ensko
Accession Number
52.154a-b
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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