Beaker Maker, attributed to: Jurian Blanck, Jr. (American, 1645–1714)

ca. 1680–90

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
other (Lip): 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm)
base: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1034

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • 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), 39, 130–31, no. 136, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 49–51, fig. 38
  • 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. 2, no. 548, ill
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 86, 110, no. 139, ill
  • Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, 1 (New York: Ensko, Inc., 1948), pl. 4, ill
  • Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, 3 (New York: Ensko, Inc., 1948), 31, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver; Part I, Seventeenth-Century Traditions," Antiques vol. 54, no. 6 (December 1948), 412, 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. 14
  • H. B. Smith, "Unidentified Silver Mark," New York Sun (October 5, 1940),
  • 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), 4, no. 42
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 21
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 134, pl. 23, ill
  • E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of Europe and America (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928), 15, pl. 1
  • Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 86, no. 154
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

beakers (drinking vessels)

Marks

"IB" (crossed I) over quatrefoil, in shield on bottom

Inscriptions

"A[^]VG[^]F" engraved on side between scrolls; "I[^]G[^]A" on bottom

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