An American Silver large Sugar Bowl and Cover, Myer Myers, New York, circa 1760

of baluster form with sloped gadrooned borders, the domed cover with conforming molded ring finial, base engraved with contemporary block initials A*W

overall condition good, marks are both visible, the cover mark slightly worn
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With formal training and entrepreneurial talents, Myers became New York City’s leading silversmith from the mid-eighteenth century to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. In 1746 Myers became the first native Jewish silversmith registered within the British Empire since the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 1327. Myers served as president and trustee of New York City’s Shearith Israel Congregation in the late 1750s, the oldest and largest Jewish community in the British Colonies. He produced some of the finest Colonial American silver for the city’s wealthy social and political leaders. Following the War Myers was elected as the first chairman of New York’s Gold and Silversmiths' Society in 1785.