Tankard Maker: Richard Van Dyck (American, 1717–1770)

ca. 1745

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm)
other (Lip): 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
base: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1932.94

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
John Nelson; his granddaughter, Rebecca (Lloyd) Hillhouse; her daughter, Rebecca Woolsey (Hillhouse) Heint; her son, Henry Stuart Heint; his daughter, Mrs. Valery Harvard; Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY
Bibliography
  • 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, pp. 90–91, no. 647, 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), 21, no. 160
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 90
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"RVD" conjoined, in shaped punch, twice at lip to left of handle

Inscriptions

Nelson arms and crest in scrolled acanthus cartouche, with diapered ground, engraved on front; "DEUS ET TUTAMEN" on ribbon below; "This piece of plate, / which bears his arms, was the / gift of John Nelson, to his granddaughter / Rebecca Lloyd, Mother of Mrs. James Hillhouse. / John Nelson was the nephew of Sir William & Sir Thomas Temple, / and one of the 700 descendants of / Lady Hester Temple of Stowe" added later on bottom

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