Tankard Maker, attributed to: Timothy Bontecou (American, 1693–1784)

ca. 1715–25

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

6 5/16 in. (16 cm)
other (Lip): 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
base: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1032

Geography

Made in New Haven, Connecticut, Made in Stratford, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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. 1, pp. 234–35, no. 333, ill
  • An Exhibition of Early Silver by New Haven Silversmiths, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: New Haven Museum and Historical Society, 1967), 15, no. 7a
  • Philip H. Hammerslough, Silver by Early Connecticut Makers, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1954), 4, no. 11
  • Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1935), 13, no. 23
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), no. 9
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"TB" in conjoined circles on bottom, at lip to left of handle, and three times on cover

Inscriptions

Decorative shield of two rows of daffodils three over four, in acanthus cartouche; crest of a daffodil; T_C_G reversed cypher with carpenter's gauge in circle of paired lines on cover, engraved

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