Spoon Maker: Gerrit Onckelbag (American, 1670–1732)

ca. 1680–90

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.211

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Flatware

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Provenance
The Vechte family, Gowanus, NY; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1936; 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), 122–24, no. 118, ill
  • 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. 27, no. 573
  • New York Silversmiths of the Seventeenth Century, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1962), no. 60
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

spoons

Inscriptions

"OB" on back of bowl, almost obliterated. "NVC" engraved on back of bowl.

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