Spoon Maker: Cornelius Vander Burgh (American, 1653–1699)

1684

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1936.215

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Flatware

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Provenance
Pieter Abrahamszen Van Deursen (b. 1642), New York; his son, Abraham Van Deursen (1672-1759), New York; his daughter, Catherine (Van Deursen) Van Vleck (m. 1739); the Van Vleck family, New York; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1936; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Sarah D. Coffin, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and COPIA: American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts, Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table 1500-2005 (New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2006),
  • 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), 120, no. 115, ill
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 169, fig. 152
  • 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. 7, no. 552, ill
  • New York Silversmiths of the Seventeenth Century, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1962), no. 74
  • 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), 32, no. 317
  • 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), 11–12, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

spoons

Marks

"CV" over "B" in heart, on back of bowl

Inscriptions

Arms (without shield) of Olof Stevense Van Cortlandt engraved on back of bowl, flanked by "OS"; "OS v Cortlt obt Ao 1684: Apr. 4" below ("OS" cojoined); "PA" scratched on back of handle

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