Tankard Maker: William Rouse (American, 1639–1705)

ca. 1695

American Decorative Arts

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

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

H. 6 3/8 × Diam. of base 5 in. (16.2 × 12.7 cm), 26 oz., 13 dwt. (826 g)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1197

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

17th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Miss Edith and the Rev. Dudley R. Child; Francis H. Bigelow, Cambridge, Mass.; Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 866.
  • 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, p. 10, no. 5, ill.
  • Masterpieces of American Silver: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 15–February 14, 1960, exh. cat. (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1960), 66, no. 127.
  • Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, and American Silver, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), 77, no. 278.
  • John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 78, no. 180.
  • Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1936), 23, no. 85.
  • Clara Louise Avery, American Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920), xciii, fig. 12.
  • George Munson Curtis and Florence Virginia Berger, American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911), 112, no. 929, pl. 22, ill.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"W.R", pellet below, star and two pellets above, in shaped shield, (twice on cover)

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