AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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Lot 403 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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.
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