Live Auction 21026Important Americana
AN AMERICAN GOLD CLASP
Lot 591 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GLORIA MANNEY

AN AMERICAN GOLD CLASP

MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, 1720-1750

Closed20 January 2023

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AN AMERICAN GOLD CLASP
MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, 1720-1750
Oval, a sprung wedge with three securing rings to one side and three matching securing rings to the other, the front engraved with a bird with outstretched wings within a rope twist border, the back engraved with initials B*T, the B later cross-hatched over and replaced with initial A, marked on back
1 in. (2.5 cm.) long

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January-1 February 1986, lot 406.

Specialist note

Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Peter Van Dyck (1684 - c. 1751) was apprenticed in 1700 to New York silversmith Bartholomew Le Roux. Van Dyck married Bartholomew's daughter Rachel in 1711, further tying him to the Le Roux family of French Huguenot silversmiths, whose clients included some of the wealthiest families in colonial New York.

An identical clasp by Van Dyck as part of a gold bead necklace is in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (Acc. No. 1932.101), and is illustrated in K. Buhler, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, vol. 2, New Haven, 1970, no. 597, pp. 52-53.