An American Silver Cann, Myer Myers, New York, circa 1750

with attenuating straight sides and slightly flared rim, on a spreading molded foot and with leaf-capped scroll handle

General Abraham Ten Broeck
Mr. Mark Bortman
M.S. Rau

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston in cooperation with the American Jewish Historical Society, Early American Jewish Portraits and Silver, 15 February - 15 March 1953

Barquist, David L., Myer Myers Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, Yale University Press, 2001, pgs. 29,69, fig. 12.

Larus, Jane Bortman, Myer Myers Silversmith 1723-1795, Washington, D.C., p. 7.

Rosenbaum, Jeanette W., Myer Myers, Goldsmith 1723-1795, Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 5714-1954, p. 104.

surface bright, edge of base worn at one point
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