AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

Lot 406
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Lot 406 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
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AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF SIMEON SOUMAINE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1720

Slightly tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the flat-domed cover with shaped beak and corkscrew thumbpiece, with scroll handle with elongated rat tail and trefid terminal, the underside engraved with block monogram S / C*C, marked on left of upper handle terminal SS in a rectangle

7 1⁄8 in. (18.1 cm.) high

38 oz. 10 dwt. (1,197 gr.)





Provenance

With the collection of Jerome Kern (1885-1945), Bronxville, New York, by the 1920's.

With James Graham and Sons, New York.

Acquired by the present owners from the above, January 1966.



Literature

Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, p. 83, fig 10.



Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, American Art of The Colonies and Early Republic, 17 July - 13 September 1971.
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