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
Sotheby's, New York, January 22, 2010, lot 439

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, pp. 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 spot
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This cann, struck with Myers's earliest mark, is an English form of the 1720's that remained popular in New York into the 1750's. While less commonly made elsewhere in the Colonies by this date, similar canns can be found by other New York makers: Peter Van Dyck, Bartholomew Le Roux II, Adrian Bancker and Henricus Boelen.