Tankard Maker: Cornelius Kierstede (American, 1675–1757)

ca. 1695–1705

American Decorative Arts

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

Silver

Dimensions

7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
other (Lip): 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
base: 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1934.356

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

17th–18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Crichton Bros., London; Francis P. Garvan, New York (1932); gift in 1934 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 124, 126–27, no. 130, ill
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 54–55, fig. 44, 45
  • Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), no. 54, vol. 2, pp. 31–32, no. 578, ill
  • New York Silversmiths of the Seventeenth Century, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1962), no. 35
  • Philip H. Hammerslough, Silver by Early Connecticut Makers, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1954), 18, no. 54
  • John Marshall Phillips, "Masterpieces in American Silver in Public Collections: Part II, 1700–1750," Antiques 55, no. 2 (February 1949), 116, ill
  • "Examples," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 8, no. 3 (June 1938), 68, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tankard

Marks

"CK" in large square on lip and at lip each side of handle

Inscriptions

Unidentified impaled arms (bear erect and goose[?]), with crest of bear erect, in scrolled acanthus cartouche with swags of fruit below, engraved on front; "CH" over cartouche on front

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