Coffee pot

Description

Myer Myers (1723-1795) received several orders for coffee pots, a form that was among the most expensive hollowware a colonial silversmith offered. This example dates from the later chapter of his work and has a tradition of ownership in New Jersey. Myers lived in the diverse community of New York and is recognized today as the earliest American-born Jewish silversmith. Myers also participated in the first exclusively Jewish Freemasons lodge in early America. His successful fifty-year career encompassed the mid-century rococo style and his entrepreneurial partnering with other artisans enabled an output that curator David Barquist characterized as exceeding any other New York silversmith prior to the War for Independence.