Two-handled Covered Cup Maker: Gerrit Onckelbag (American, 1670–1732)

ca. 1695

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

5 3/4 × 8 3/4 × 5 9/16 in. (14.6 × 22.2 × 14.1 cm), 23 oz., 5 dwt. (723 g)
base: Diam. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.135a-b

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Probably originally owned by Judith Van Cortlandt, New York; Clapp and Graham, New York, NY (1936); Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY (1936)
Bibliography
  • Natalie Zemon Davis, Marybeth De Filippis, and Joyce D. Goodfriend, Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick, exh. cat. (New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2009), 218–19, no. 62, ill
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 100, ill
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 41, 137, 161, no. 143, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 33, 35, fig. 12
  • Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, p. 25, no. 571, ill
  • Masterpieces of American Silver: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 15–February 14, 1960, exh. cat. (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1960), 76–77, no. 195
  • John Marshall Phillips, Early American Silver Selected from the Mabel Garvan Collection, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1960), no. 9, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), no. 265
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), 82, no. 224
  • John Marshall Phillips, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of Silver at Yale University," Connoisseur Year Book (1953), 69, 71, pl. 8, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1950), 29, fig. 22
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver; Part I, Seventeenth-Century Traditions," Antiques vol. 54, no. 6 (December 1948), 410, (frontispiece), ill
  • An Exhibition of Early American Silver, January 1st to 28th, 1945, in the Morgan Memorial of the Wadsworth Atheneum, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1945), no. 127, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Outstanding Examples from the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 8, no. 2 (February 1938), 40, ill
  • V. Isabelle Miller, Silver by New York Makers, Late 17th Century to 1900, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1937), 23, no. 220, ill
  • Seymour B. Wyler, The Book of Old Silver (New York: Crown Publishers, 1937), 44, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Additions to the Garvan Collection of Silver," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 8, no. 1 (June 1937), 1, 6–7, ill
  • "A Newly Discovered Masterpiece of New York Silver," Antiques 30, no. 6 (December 1936), 284–85, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

"G.B O" in trefoil with straight bottom line, on bottom

Inscriptions

Bayard arms and crest, in scrolled acanthus cartouche, engraved on side; "IB" on bottom and under flange of cover

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