AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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Lot 395 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1685

Tapering cylindrical, the foot with molded border, engraved on the front with a coat-of-arms, the hinged flat-domed cover with shaped beak and recumbent lion-form thumbpiece, the scroll handle with cut-card and wrigglework at hinge and cartouche-form lower terminal, marked on cover and to left of handle ID over a device in a heart (Kane mark A)

8 1⁄8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

38 oz. 18 dwt. (1,210 gr.)





Provenance

For William Foxcroft.

With Phoebe Foxcroft (1743-1812) and her husband Samuel Phillips Jr. (1752-1802), Andover, Massachusetts, married 6 July 1773.



Literature

Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver For the Cautious Collector, New York, 1970, pp. 50-51, fig. 46.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 394.
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