Covered porringer Maker: Peter Van Dyck (American, 1684–1751)

ca. 1715

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
other (bowl): 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
other (Handle): 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1066a-b

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

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Provenance
Probably Margaret Grietje Bogaert Haring (born by 1672) and Peter Jans Haring (1664–1750), Tappan, N.Y.; by descent to their son Elbert Pieterse Haring (1706–1773), New York, by 1750; by descent to his daughter Cornelia Herring Jones (1740–1821), Oyster Bay, N.Y., by 1773 [see note 1]; given to her granddaughter Eleanore Jones Smith (1805–1884), Cold Spring Harbor then Brookhaven, N.Y., 1805; given to her daughter Amelia Smith (1832–1899), Ridge, N.Y., 1873; given to her niece Eleanor Jones Smith (1866–1928), New York, 1899; sold to Luke Vincent Lockwood, Greenwich, Conn., by 1928; sold to Francis P. Garvan, New York, 1929; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Note 1: Elbert Haring Anglicized the spelling of the family name to Herring and both spellings appear in period documents. Cornelia's name is inscribed on the porringer; the early ownership history is suppositional based on the JPM cypher and Cornelia's grandparents sharing those initials.
Bibliography
  • Marybeth De Filippis, "Margrieta van Varick's 'East Indian' Goods: A Possible Influence on Colonial American Silver," The Magazine Antiques (September 2009), 85, 87
  • Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 90, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 88–89, fig. 81
  • 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. 44, no. 590, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1950), 15–16, fig. 5
  • Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, 1 (New York: Ensko, Inc., 1948), pl. 6, ill
  • 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), 33, no. 332
  • Katherine B. Hastings, "Peter Van Dyck of New York, Goldsmith part I," Antiques 31 (May 1937), 237, fig. 4
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 83
  • Edward Wenham, "Early American Porringers," Antiquarian 11, no. 4 (November 1928), 56, ill
  • Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 92, no. 181
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

porringers

Marks

"PV.D" in trefoil twice at lip to left of handle

Inscriptions

"JMP" cypher, within crossed leafy fronts, engraved on side of bowl and on cover; "Presented to / Eleanor Jones in 1805. / by her Grandmother. / Cornelia Haring Jones", "In 1873 / Eleanor Jones Smith / gave it to her daughter / Amelia Smith" and "Eleanor Jones Smith / From her Aunt Amelia / 1899" added on side of bowl; "12 oz 10 pt" scratched on bottom

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