ID 1122128
Lot 375 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
MARK OF JOHANNES NYS, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1710
Slightly tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the stepped domed cover with scroll thumbpiece, the scroll handle engraved with block initials C / E*R and with heart terminal, later engraved with block monogram IP to the underside, marked right of upper handle terminal and twice on cover near thumbpiece IN in an oval, and with scratch weight 26 oz 14 dwt
6 7⁄8 in. (17.4 cm.) high
26 oz. 4 dwt. (815 gr.)
Provenance
For Johannes Pieter Courtin (Keurlis) (1652-1726) and his wife Elizabeth Doors (1647-1727), Germantown, Pennsylvania, to their daughter,
Martha Courtin (Keurlis) (1682-1716) and her husband Thomas Potts (1680-1752), to their son
Jonathan Keurlis Potts (1710-1768), founder of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and his wife Ruth Savage (1715-1786), thence by descent to,
Mrs. Davis, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, to her daughter,
Ms. Clair Davis.
Acquired from the above by Mr. W. Lanier Washington (1865-1933), great great-nephew of George Washington, sold,
Relics and Memorabilia of George Washington Inherited and Collected by his Great Great-Nephew Mr. W. Lanier Washington; American Art Association, New York, 22 February 1922, lot 57 (attributed to John Noyes, Boston).
By repute, with The Lohreimer Collection.
With Joe Kindig, York, Pennsylvania, by 1942.
With Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, July 1963.
Literature
M. Stow, American Silver, New York, 1950, p. 28, illus. p. 16 (attributed to John Noyes, Boston, Massachusetts).
Allen Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 11.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1956, no. 306.
Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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Medium: | Silver |
Category: | Tankards |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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Medium: | Silver |
Category: | Tankards |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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