AN AMERICAN SILVER SMALL TWO-HANDLED BRANDYWINE BOWL

Shallow drinking bowls, such as the present lot, were a New York version of a 17th century European form, and were at times called brandy bowls. The bowl offered here is one of a group of similar bowls by Boelen chased with palmettes and twisting handles, including one in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York (acc. no. 66.45), and two at the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware (acc. nos. 53.186 and 56.46.4). Another example from the collection of Roy J. Zuckerberg is illustrated in Jeanne Sloane, Artistry & Enterprise: American Silver 1660-1790, New York, 2018, pp. 134-135, while a further example, engraved with monogram S / IF, was sold from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 2004, lot 737.