An Ameican Silver Cann, circa 1750

baluster form, later engraved with the three scenes of the Devil leading the Pope and the Pretender into hell below a rhyme and above a band of strapwork punctuated by grotesque heads, the base bearing inscription Jofeph Leddel: fculpt 1750, top of scroll handle engraved with the crest of a demi-lion rampant holding a coronet, marked on base BR in oval , cf. mark of Bartholomew LeRoux II

old solder underneath foot rim, otherwise good
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The inscription reads: "Three mortal enimies (sic) Remember, The Devil Pope and the Pretender, Most wicked damnable and evil, The Pope Pretender and the Devil I wish they were all hang'd in a rope The Pretender Devil and the Pope."

Two beakers engraved with versions of these scenes are known, one a French beaker of 1707-8 in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York (cat. no. 37), the other by Daniel Christian Fueter in the collection at Winterthur (cat. no. 194).  Other pieces with the signature of Leddel and political scenes are the tankard by William Vilant in the collection of Historic Deerfield Inc. Deerfield, MA, and a cann with mark attributed to Bartholomew LeRoux II (Christie's, New York 27 January 1995, lot 622).