ID 1122157
Lot 395 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
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.
| 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 |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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