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

ca. 1745

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
other (Lip): 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
base: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1063

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Phillip Livingston; his son, Edward Livingston; his daughter, Elizabeth Livingston Ludlow; her daughter, Mary Ludlow Hall; Miss Carol, New York, NY; Francis P. Garvan, New York, NY (1922).
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, p. 51, no. 596, ill
  • From Colony to Nation; an Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1949), 104, no. 213, ill
  • Katherine B. Hastings, "Peter Van Dyck of New York, Goldsmith, 1684-1750 part II," Antiques 31 (June 1937), 304, fig. 19
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 86
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 143, pl. 24, ill
  • E. Alfred Jones, Old Silver of Europe and America (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1928), 21, pl. 3
  • Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, assembled by Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925), 93, no. 184
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"P.V.D" in oval twice at lip to left of handle and on cover

Inscriptions

Livingston arms and crest in elaborate scrolled cartouche on scaled and crosshatched ground, with pendent flowers below, engraved on front; "SPERO MELIORA" on ribbon below; "PLC" on bottom; "42 1/8 ounces" scratched later on bottom

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