AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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Lot 413 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF BENJAMIN WYNKOOP, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1710

Slightly tapered cylindrical, the base band with wrigglework below a band of leaf-tips, engraved on the front with a coat-of-arms within a foliate mantle, the flat-domed cover with shaped and engraved peak and inset with a 1646 one patagon coin minted in Flanders, in the Spanish Netherlands under Philip IV, with corkscrew thumbpiece, the scroll handle applied with a mask above foliage and with cherub terminal, engraved monograms B / H*I and L / R*M, marked WKB in a heart twice left of upper handle terminal and twice on cover

7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

42 oz. 8 dwt. (1,319 gr.)





Provenance

Henry Beekman (1687-1775) and his wife Janet Livingston (1703-1724), to their daughter,

Margaret Beekman (1724-1800) and her husband Robert Livingston (1718-1775).

With Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

Acquired by the present owners from the above, August 1963.



Literature

Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 80-83.
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