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AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

Lot 298
21.01.2022 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 13 750
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 696207
Lot 298 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF JOHN NOYES, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1704

Tapered cylindrical with banded foot rim, the body engraved to the front This belongs to / the Church in / Brattle-street / 1704 within a foliate cartouche surmounted by a cherub's head, and with two further later presentation engravings to either side, the slightly domed cover with incised band border and shaped peak, with double dolphin and grotesque mask-form thumbpiece, the scroll handle with cartouche form terminal, marked to left of handle and top of cover (Kane mark A), the underside with scratch weight 34 oz = 2 dwt

8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

34 oz. (1,057 gr.)







Provenance

Brattle Street Church, Boston, 1704,

Acquired by Peter Thatcher Homer (1804 - 1887) in a church members' auction 29 December 1839,

Acquired by the present owner from Bernard & S. Dean Levy Gallery Inc, New York, by 1987.





Literature

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, Boston, 1998, p. 738.

David B. Warren, Katherine S. Howe, and Michael K. Brown, Marks of Achievement: Four Centuries of American Presentation Silver, Houston, 1987, pp. 33-36, figs. 18 and 19.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Silver
Category:Tankards
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