AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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Lot 399 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF ELIAS PELLETREAU, SOUTH HAMPTON, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1760

Tapering cylindrical with molded foot band, the flat domed cover with shaped beak and scroll thumbpiece, the scroll handle with baluster drop and oval terminal, engraved with block monogram S / T=A, marked both sides of handle EP in a rectangle

7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

30 oz. 6 dwt. (942 gr.)





Provenance

Possibly for a member of the Smith Family.

With Samuel Marshall.

With Ginsberg & Levy, New York, 1940.

With Dr. Norman Treves (1894-1964), New York, sold,

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 31 October 1964, lot 251.



Literature

Allen Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 8.
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