Live Auction 22325Important Americana
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Lot 411 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOAN AND BOWEN BLAIR, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS

AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1720

Closed19 January 2024

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USD 7,000–10,000

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AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1720
Slightly tapered cylindrical with molded base band, the flat domed cover with shaped beak, the top of the cover engraved with a ring of running leaves, corkscrew thumbpiece, with scroll handle with beaded rattail and cherub head terminal, underside with block monogram S / P*E, marked left of upper handle terminal P.VD in a shaped rectangle
6 ¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high
25 oz. 4 dwt. (784 gr.)

With the Halsey and Pruyn Collection, by 1924.
With the Francis P. and Mabel Brady Garvan Collection by 1937.
With Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, June 1962.

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.