Tankard Maker: Nicholas Roosevelt (American, 1715–1769)

ca. 1745–60

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

h.: 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm)
lip: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
base: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1073

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
De Friest family, Rensselaer, NY; Mrs. Thomas J. Van Alstyne, Albany, NY (1900); Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY (1921).
Bibliography
  • Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 338, ill
  • 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. 87, no. 643, ill
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 59
  • E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of Europe and America (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928), pl. 3, 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), 90, no. 173
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"N.RV" in oval at lip each side of handle

Inscriptions

"PDF/R" engraved on handle; "PDF" scratched several times on bottom; "36 oz 10 pwt 12 grs" scratched on bottom; "AVS" engraved later on front

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