Tankard

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1700
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. ( 17.5 x 12.4 x 21 cm ) Silver Weight: 28 oz (troy) 3 dwt (875 g)
Description: 
Wrought silver tankard; circular body with straight sides tapered from applied, molded, baseband with a meander wire midway; an applied band of stamped leaves above the meanderwire; applied, molded, flared lip; stepped flat cover, with a serrated and engraved flange at front; corkscrew thumbpiece and molded hinge-plate with meander wire and shaped, engraved drop with an applied, cast lion couchant below; scroll handle with cast, and engraved cherub's mask on a flat shield-shaped terminal; "A * P" engraved on the handle in block letters; center side engraved with the De Peyster family crest, a shield with a tree of the field between two sheep, shield between to spread eagles on laurel branches with raised heads, shield surmounted by a cubit, armored arm holding a sword; engraved below the crest, "WM. A. De Peyster" in gothic script; maker's marks stamped below rim, on each side of the handle and on the lid.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Catharine Augusta De Peyster
Object Number: 
1911.39
Marks: 
Maker's mark stamped in relief twice under lip molding on either side of handle. Smilar maker's mark outline stamped three times on lid top. Inscriptions: Arms of De Peyster family and name "Wm. A. De Peyster" engraved on body. "A * P" engraved on hand
Gallery Label: 
This tankard, the earliest in the Historical Society's collection, displays typical features of colonial New York tankards. The broad, sturdy vessel has a flat top, crenellated flange, and cocoon thumbpiece. Its baseband is embellished with meander wire and cut-card work, decorative details derived from continental silver and probably first introduced by Dutch and Huguenot makers. The engraved initials "A * P" on the tankard's handle presumably refer to its original owner, New York City merchant Abraham De Peyster (1657-1728).
Provenance: 
Abraham De Peyster (1657-1728), who married Catharina De Peyster (1665-before 1734); to their son Abraham De Peyster, Jr. (1696-1767), who married Margaretta Van Cortlandt (1694-1769); to their son James A. De Peyster (1726-1799), who married Sarah Reade (1724-1802); to their son Colonel Abraham De Peyster (1753-1799), who married Catharine Augusta Livingston (1759-1839); to their son William Axtell De Peyster (1793-1856), who married Mary Beekman (1800-1885); to their daughter, Catharine Augusta De Peyster (1835-1911), the donor.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
34799
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tankard

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1765
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/4 x 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 13 x 21.6 cm ) Part (lip): 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) Part (base): 5 in. (12.7
Description: 
Wrought silver tankard; baluster-shaped body with a molded, flared lip on a molded, circular foot; stepped, domed cover with a serrated flange at the front; split, double-scrolled thumbpiece and molded hinge-plate with a broad molded drop and a small bead drop; double-scroll handle with a forked scroll terminal; foliate scroll cartouche surmounted by a basket issuing flames; cartouche engraved, "P S V R" in bright-cut script; maker's marks stamped on the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Alexander H. Whitman and Mr. Robert B. Choate, Jr.
Object Number: 
1965.45
Marks: 
Inscriptions (Engraved): Asymmetrical rococo cartouche surrounded by vines, foliage, floral elements, crest composed of skein holding Van Rensselaer crest of flaming basket, all engraved on center-front of body. Engraved script initials "PSVR" located in
Gallery Label: 
This baluster-form tankard is engraved with the initials of Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1766-1824), a prominent Albany banker and two-term mayor of that city. Van Rensselaer probably inherited this tankard, likely made around the time he was born, from his father, Stephen Van Rensselaer II (1742-1769), the eighth patroon of Rensselaerswyck. The tankard is adorned with an animated Rococo cartouche, framed by an asymmetrical assemblage of scrolls, waves, and foliage, which probably once enclosed the family coat of arms. As on other Van Rensselaer family silver, the cartouche is surmounted by the family's crest of an iron basket issuing flames. The Neoclassical-style floral script initials, "PSVR", appear on other surviving silver that once belonged to Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and were probably engraved around the time of his marriage in 1787.
Provenance: 
Possible descent: Stephen Van Rensselaer II (1742-1769), who married Catherine Livingston (1745-1810); to their son Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1766-1824), who married Anne de Peyster Van Cortlandt (1766-1855); descended through family to Katherine Schuyler Crosby (1901-1956), great-great-granddaughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer III (1764-1839), who married (2nd) Hon. Raymond Sanger Wilkins (1891-1971); to their children Sylvia Choate (Mrs. Alexander Harvey Whitman; 1923-2008) and her brother Robert Burnett Choate (1924-2009), the donors.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1765
eMuseum Object ID: 
34794
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Mug

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1830
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 1/2 x 3 x 4 in. ( 8.9 x 7.6 x 10.2 cm )
Description: 
Silver mug; cylindrical, fluted body that flares at the lip; applied, convex base band with die-roll band scene of a fox hunt; s-scroll handle at rear; engraved, "Catherine Chauncey/ from her Uncle Charles" in script on the center front; retailer's marks on the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Edwin M. Blake
Object Number: 
1944.129
Marks: 
Inscriptions: engraved at center front: "Catherine. Chauncey/ from her Uncle Charles" in script Maker's marks: stamped on base: "J & I. COX" with rectangular surround in relief at bottom. Three pseudo hallmarks of profile bust in oval surround, star in
Gallery Label: 
Mug donated by Mrs. Edwin M. Blake (formerly Mrs. George T. Linsley) and believed to have belonged to Catherine Chauncey, grand-daughter of Commodore Isaac C. Chauncey (1772-1840), commander of naval forces at Lakes Erie and Ontario during War of 1812 (see accession file and MIMSY record for #1970.5ab). Cmdr. Chauncey was commandant of New York Navy Yard from 1825-1832.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1830
eMuseum Object ID: 
34793
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Mug

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1700
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 5/8 x 3 1/8 x 5 3/8 in. ( 9.2 x 7.9 x 13.7 cm ) Silver Weight: 164 oz (troy) 12 dwt (256 g)
Description: 
Wrought silver mug; circular body with straight sides tapered from applied, molded base band, with meander wire mid way, to an applied, molded rim; applied, molded mid-band with meander wire midway; wide, plain s-scroll handle with a semi-circular terminal; lower, front body engraved with a heart-shaped reserve surrounded by foliate scrolls, " I S E" cipher in the center of reserve; "S/ I * E" engraved in block letters on the handle; maker's mark on the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Harison and William Harison
Object Number: 
1941.296
Marks: 
Inscription: engraved cipher "ISE" framed in heart with Baroque mantling of tendrils surmounted by foliate bud; "S/I+E" engraved in block letters along upper arc of handle. Maker's mark: stamped on base: "K TE" in block letters conjoined in a rectangle
Gallery Label: 
This mug is one of a pair made for the Albany couple Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747) and Elizabeth (Elsie) Staats Wendell (1659-1737), who married in 1695. Silversmith Koenraet Ten Eyck kept an account book, which records activity from 1729 to around 1760, a rare document of a colonial New York silversmith's shop. Based on his account book, Ten Eyck produced primarily Indian trade silver and was rarely called on to make mugs or tankards. Yet in January 1732, a Philip Schuyler ordered "2 muggs" from Ten Eyck. He was charged £8.9.9 for the silver (more than nineteen ounces), and just twenty-six shillings for the labor. The silversmith's client may have been Philip Johannes Schuyler (1695-1745), the eldest son of this mug's owners.
Provenance: 
Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747) and Elizabeth (Elsie) Staats Wendell (ca. 1658-1737); to their son Johannes Schuyler (1697-1741), who married Cornelia Van Cortlandt (1698-1762); to their son Philip Schuyler (1733-1804), who married Catherine Van Rensselaer (1734-1803); to their son John Bradstreet Schuyler (1765-1795), who married Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (1768-1841); to their son Philip Schuyler (1788-1865), who married Grace Hunter (1790-1855); to their daughter Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1815-1866), who married Richard Harison Ogden (1811-1859); to their daughter Gertrude H. Ogden (b. 1843), who married Richard Morley Harison (1833-1895); to their children Elizabeth (1873-1956) and William Harison (1870-1948), the donors.
Bibliography: 
Hofer, Margaret K. "Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century family silver." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 156-161.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
34790
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Shoe buckles

Classification: 
Date: 
1750-1780
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
overall (each): 2 x 2 5/8 x 3/4 in. ( 5.1 x 6.7 x 1.9 cm )
Description: 
Pair of rectangular silver shoe buckles with rounded corners, rectangular hinged chape and tongue at the center; hammered leaf and "x" design around outer edges of buckle frame.
Object Number: 
INV.12501ab
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1780
eMuseum Object ID: 
34788
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Bowl

Classification: 
Date: 
1746-1763
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 4 x 8 3/4 in. ( 10.2 x 22.2 cm ) Silver Weight: 25 oz (troy) 10 dwt (793 g)
Description: 
Wrought silver bowl, deep, bowl-shaped body on a cast, applied molded foot; applied, molded, reeded band around the rim; engraved on the base, "ozs" in script over, "26/ B/ T P" in block letters; maker's mark in the center of the bowl.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Sr.; The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection
Object Number: 
1951.91
Marks: 
engraved: on the base: "ozs" in script over, "26/ B/ T P" in block letters stamped: in the center of the bowl: "MM" conjoined, in roman letters in a cartouche
Gallery Label: 
This bowl belonged to Captain Thomas (d. 1763) and Phebe Barnes (d. 1788). Thomas Barnes was captain of a privateering vessel out of New York and Westchester during the Revolutionary War.
Provenance: 
Thomas (d. 1763) and Phebe (d. 1788) Barnes; by Phebe's will dated November 3, 1785, "my Gold Watch and my large Silver Punch Bowl" bequeathed to her daughter Phebe (Barnes) Tolmie (d. 1795). Subsequent ownership uncertain; Phebe Tolmie bequeathed "one Silver milk Pot" to her unmarried sister Philena, "my wearing Apparel & Jewels" to her niece Pheba Cummings, and the remainder of her estate to her nephew David Harris. Exhibited during 1940s at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from "the collection of Ahline Jones"; sold in 1949 by the dealers James Graham & Sons of New York, acting as an agent for "a descendant of the original owners, Thomas and Phoebe [sic] Barnes," to the collector Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1763
eMuseum Object ID: 
34783
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sugar bowl

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1800
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. ( 24.1 x 19 x 11.7 cm )
Description: 
Wrought silver sugar bowl with lid; oval, boat-shaped body on a stepped oval foot with four convex flutes; foot engraved with a foliate band on upper step and foliate motifs on the tops of the flutes; body has four convex flutes, two on each side; applied, flat rim stamped with a foliate design; oval, concave lid with four flutes, raised to a dome in the center with a cast urn finial screwed applied to the center; lid engraved around the edge with a foliate band and two bands of dots; cast, hinged ring handles; bright-cut foliate band below the shoulder; shield reserves on each side draped with swags; no maker's marks.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Constance Schermerhorn Skillin
Object Number: 
1937.189ab
Marks: 
Engraving: denter-front and center-back bright-cut shield framed with beading, fleur de lis, and surrounded by mantling of swags, drapery, ribbons, and tassels; also ornamental border engraving similar to that of milk pot at edge of lid and at lip band of
Gallery Label: 
Belonged to David Grim (1737-1826).
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1800
eMuseum Object ID: 
34767
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Creamer

Classification: 
Date: 
1830-1838
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 5/8 x 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( 19.4 x 18.7 x 11.4 cm )
Description: 
Wrought silver creamer; inverted pear shaped body joined to a molded, circular, stepped foot by a die-rolled foliate scroll pedestal; applied, vertical die-rolled footring; body flares to a convex shoulder with a die-rolled foliate scrolled band at the base; raised neck and pouring rim, low at the sides with a high, extended pouring lip; die-rolled, rope molding band applied around the rim; c-curve hollow handle, made in vertical halves, circular in section, swelling toward a crimped center, with a bulbous thumbpiece, with a single upper terminal and a double lower terminal; engraved, "C. T. Pierson" in script on the center front; maker's marks on the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Clarissa P. Jacocks
Object Number: 
INV.326
Marks: 
engraved: on center front: "C. T. Pierson" stamped: on base: "F. MARQUAND" in a conforming rectangle
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1838
eMuseum Object ID: 
34763
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sugar bowl with lid

Classification: 
Date: 
1830-1838
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/2 x 9 3/8 x 5 3/4 in. ( 24.1 x 23.8 x 14.6 cm )
Description: 
Wrought silver sugar bowl with lid; inverted pear shaped body joined to a molded, circular, stepped foot by a die-rolled foliate scroll pedestal; applied, vertical die-rolled footring; body flares to a convex, stepped shoulder with a die-rolled foliate scrolled band at the base and vertically applied, die-rolled foliate scroll rim; round, domed lid with a hollow cast floral finial; two c-curve hollow handles, made in vertical halves, circular in section, swelling towards crimped centers, with bulbous thumbpieces with single upper terminals and double lower terminals; engraved, "C. T. Pierson" in script on the center front; maker's marks on the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Clarissa P. Jacocks
Object Number: 
INV.325ab
Marks: 
engraved: on center front: "C. T. Pierson" stamped: on base: "F. MARQUAND" in a conforming rectangle
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1838
eMuseum Object ID: 
34761
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sugar bowl and cover

Classification: 
Date: 
1750-1770
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 4 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. ( 12.4 x 11.7 cm ) Bowl: 3 5/8 x 4 3/8 in. ( 9.2 x 11.1 cm ) Part (cover): 4 5/8 x 1 5/8
Description: 
Wrought silver sugar bowl and cover; inverted pear-shaped body on a spun, molded foot; concave shoulder with a vertically applied, plain rim; domed, molded cover with a vertically applied bezel fitting over the rim of the bowl; cast, molded handle, smaller than the foot of the bowl; no maker's marks.
Object Number: 
INV.14449ab
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1770
eMuseum Object ID: 
34751
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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