ID 1122206
Lot 407 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
MARK OF CHARLES LE ROUX, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1725
Slightly tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the flat domed cover with shaped and engraved beak and corkscrew thumbpiece, the scroll handle with baluster drop and oval disc terminal, engraved on the front with a later coat-of-arms in a baroque acanthus strapwork and brickwork cartouche, marked on left and right of upper handle terminal C pellet R in an oval
6 7⁄8 in. (17.4 cm.) high
33 oz. 16 dwt. (1,051 gr.)
Provenance
Possibly for Sir William Burnet (1687-1729), colonial governor of New York and New Jersey and later Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and his wife Anna Maria Von Horne.
With John and Elizabeth Crother or Crouthier of New York.
With James Graham and Sons, New York, sold to,
Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York, by 1960.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, between 1962 and 1965.
Literature
Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 9.
| 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 |
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