ID 696350
Lot 288 | AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 6 000
MARK OF JOHANNIS NYS, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1720
The pierced keyhole handle engraved with block initials M*G, the body later engraved with monograms documenting the line of decent, marked on underside
7 3⁄4 in. (19.6 cm.) long, over handle
8 oz. 10 dwt. (264 gr.)
Provenance
Mary Gateaux (1689 - 1783) m. Joshua Maddox (1687 - 1759), to their daughter,
Mary Maddox (1732 - 1784) m. John Wallace (1717 - 1783), to their son,
Joshua Maddox Wallace (1752 - 1819) m. Tace Bradford (1750 - 1828), to their daughter,
Susan Bradford Wallace (1790 - 1869) m. Mark Wilks Collet (1788 - 1840), to their daughter,
Laura Susan Collet (1829 - 1896), to her nephew,
John Mortimer Barclay (b. 1848), to his sister,
Laura Christina Barclay (1851 - 1874) m. Shippen Wallace (1850 - 1911), to their grandson-in-law,
Arthur Knowlton Peck (1905 - 1990) m. Christiana Wallace Crane (1900 - 1973), thence by decent,
Property of a Direct Descendant of the Original Owners; Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 January 2000, lot 107.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Silver, 1682–1800, Philadelphia Museum of Art, no. 293 or 294 (a pair).
The Yale University Gallery of Art example:
Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver: Garvan and Other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery, vol. II, New Haven, 1970, no. 822, pp. 176-177.
Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and their Marks IV, Boston, 1988, p. 454.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940 (a pair).
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1940 - 1948 (a pair).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Silver 1682-1800, 14 April - 27 May 1956 (a pair).
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Category: | Soup bowls |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Category: | Soup bowls |
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