Drinking Vessel (Bernegal) Maker: Unknown

before 1641

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

2 3/4 × 6 7/16 × 5 1/4 in. (7 × 16.3 × 13.3 cm), 7 oz., 9 dwt. (231 g)

Credit Line

Josephine Setze Fund for the John Marshall Phillips Collection

Accession Number

2020.73.1

Geography

Probably made in New Spain

Culture

Spanish

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Nuestra Senora de la Pura y Limpia Concepcion, wrecked 1641; salvaged by William Robinson, 1689. Sotheby’s, New York, Sale, November 5th, 1986 lot 54; sold to Carlos Alberto Cruz (The Apelles Collection), London and Santiago, Chile; consigned to Eguiguren Arte de Hispanoamerica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bibliography
  • "Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 146, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels), vessel

Inscriptions

“This Plate was taken up / the 5th day of Feb: 1688-9 / by Wm Robinson out of / a Spanish Wreck lost in / Ao 1640 on ye N Reefe / NNW from Cape Ca- / barone in Hispaniola / 24 Leag Lat 20d.40’ / in 7 fath. Water” engraved on the central lobe on one side

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