AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

Lot 411
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$ 7 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1122067
Lot 411 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1720

Slightly tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the flat domed cover with shaped beak, the top of the cover engraved with a ring of running leaves, corkscrew thumbpiece, with scroll handle with beaded rattail and cherub head terminal, underside with block monogram S / P*E, marked left of upper handle terminal P.VD in a shaped rectangle

6 ¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high

25 oz. 4 dwt. (784 gr.)





Provenance

With the Halsey and Pruyn Collection, by 1924.

With the Francis P. and Mabel Brady Garvan Collection by 1937.

With Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

Acquired by the present owners from the above, June 1962.



Literature

C. Louise Avery, "Early New York Silver," Antiques, November 1924, pp. 248-249, fig. 7.

Mrs. Russell Hastings, "Peter Van Dyck of New York, Goldsmith 1684-1750," Antiques, June 1937, p. 304, fig. 20.

Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 7.

American Art of The Colonies and Early Republic, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971, p. 74, no. 101.

Apollo Magazine, September 1971, p. 234, no. 6.



Exhibited

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts, long term loan from the Garvan Collection.

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, American Art of The Colonies and Early Republic, 17 July - 13 September 1971.
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