ID 1122141
Lot 403 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
MARK OF CORNELIUS WYNKOOP, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1720
Slightly tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the flat-domed cover with shaped beak and scroll thumbpiece, the scroll handle with baluster drop and oval disc terminal, engraved with block initials M*H, the underside with later inscription detailing provenance, marked WKC in a heart twice each to left of upper handle terminal, cover, and underside
7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
32 oz. 4 dwt. (1,001 gr.)
Provenance
Marion Renwick (1662-1732), Woodbridge, New Jersey, wife of Hon. Adam Hude (1661-1746), to their son,
James Hude (1695-1762), New Brunswick, New Jersey, and his wife Mary Jansen (b. 1713), daughter of Mayor of New York Johannes Jansen, to their daughter,
Catharine Hude (1736-1777), New Brunswick, New Jersey, and her husband Cornelius Low (1736-c. 1769), to their daughter,
Mary Margaret Low (1768-1844), New Brunswick, New Jersey, and her husband Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1767-1841), to their son,
Cornelius Low Hardenbergh (1790-1860), New Brunswick, New Jersey, to his granddaughter,
Catherine Low Hardenbergh (1852-1902), New Brunswick, New Jersey, to her niece,
Catherine Hardenbergh Schneeweiss (1854-1927), New Brunswick, New Jersey.
With Mr. Rickert.
With the Sandors family.
With Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Acquired by the current owners from the above, Spring 1967.
Literature
Advertised by a business partner of Rickert, publication unknown, 1952.
Myrtle Hardenbergh Miller, The Hardenberg Family: A Genealogical Compilation, New York, 1958, pp. 107-108.
Allen Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 9.
Exhibited
New York, National Antiques Dealers Association of America, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., Art Treasures Exhibition, 23 May - 7 June 1967.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Category: | Tankards |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Category: | Tankards |
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