Colonial Williamsburg acquires its earliest piece of American silver

Caudle Cup, John Hull (1624-1683) and Robert Sanderson (circa 1608-1693) and marked by Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718), silver, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1670. Broad, baluster-shaped body with a lightly everted rim, a low base and a pair of cast handles applied to opposite sides. Museum purchase, the Joseph H. and June S. Hennage Fund, 2022-74. Image courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Caudle Cup, John Hull (1624-1683) and Robert Sanderson (circa 1608-1693) and marked by Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718), silver, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1670. Broad, baluster-shaped body with a lightly everted rim, a low base and a pair of cast handles applied to opposite sides. Museum purchase, the Joseph H. and June S. Hennage Fund, 2022-74. Image courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Caudle Cup, John Hull (1624-1683) and Robert Sanderson (circa 1608-1693) and marked by Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718), silver, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1670. Broad, baluster-shaped body with a lightly everted rim, a low base and a pair of cast handles applied to opposite sides. Museum purchase, the Joseph H. and June S. Hennage Fund, 2022-74. Image courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – A 17th-century caudle cup that belonged to the Puritan congregation of the First Church of Christ in Farmington, Connecticut, and was used there as a vessel for sacramental wine, was recently acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, making it the earliest piece of American silver in its famed collection. The cup, wrought around 1670 in Boston, Massachusetts, was fashioned by the first silversmiths making goods in what is now the United States.

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