AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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Lot 397 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1690

Tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the cover with shaped beak and incised bands at rim, the flat domed cover chased with sloping gadroons and with corkscrew thumbpiece, the scroll handle ribbed and with cast wrigglework at hinge and with cast cherub terminal with cut card join and ear above, the underside later engraved F / D*S 1750 , W.F. 1776, C.F. 1826., C.L.A. 1862, J.L.W. 1921, A.W. 1943, marked left of upper handle terminal and on cover with ID in a heart (Kane mark A)

6 1⁄8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

22 oz. 8 dwt. (697 gr.)





Provenance

Possibly the family of Rev. Urian Oakes (1631-1681), president of Harvard College 1675-1680.

With Daniel Farnham (1719-1776), and his wife Sybil Angier (1718-1797), granddaugher of Urian Oakes, circa 1750, to their son,

William Farnham (c. 1760-1826), to his daughter,

Charlotte Farnham (d. 1862), to her niece,

Charlotte Louisa Lambard Armitage (1828-1921), to her daughter,

Julia Lambard Armitage Whitman (1865-1942), to her son,

Dr. Armitage Whitman (1887-1962), New York.

With James Graham and Sons, New York.

Acquired by the present owners from the above, 21 January 1963.



Literature

Antiques, June 1953, pp. 500-501, frontispiece.

Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 80-81. fig 1.

American Art of The Colonies and Early Republic, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971, p. 74, no. 100.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 395.



Exhibited

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