Creamer
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1800
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 3 x 4 5/8 in. ( 17.1 x 7.6 x 11.7 cm )
Description:
Wrought silver creamer; helmet-shaped body with a high, extended pouring lip, low sides and a high back at the handle juncture; applied; reeded band around the rim; on an oval stepped base with a plain, applied and seamed footring; high, reeded, loop handle tapering at the bottom and incurved over the angled shoulder at the upper body joint; bright-cut shield reserve engraved, "S D S" in bright-cut script, surmounted by the Dahlgren family arms, a plant growing in a flower pot; makers' marks on the base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Louise Stafford Gilder, 12/14/73
Object Number:
INV.14456
Marks:
engraved: in the reserve: "S D S" in bright-cut script, surmounted by the Dahlgren family arms, a plant growing in a flower pot
stamped: on base: four times, "M & V S" in a rectangle
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
34505
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creamer
Classification:
Date:
1797-1798
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 2 7/8 x 5 in. ( 20.3 x 7.3 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Wrought silver creamer; urn-shaped body with a high, extended, pointed pouring lip, low sides, and a back rising to a point at the handle juncture; applied, beaded band around the rim; body applied to a circular pedestal on a square base; beading around the body juncture and the base of the pedestal; high-loop strap handle tapers at the high point of the handle, widening and tapering again to a point at the bottom; handle has angular shoulders at the joint with the upper body; wheel turned circular reserve suspended from a bow-knot with bright-cut bell flowers below; reserve engraved, "T L" in bright-cut script; maker's mark on the base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Robert G. Goelet
Object Number:
1978.2
Marks:
engraved: in the reserve: "T L"
stamped: on edge of the base: "A & R" in a rectangle
Gallery Label:
George Alexander and Henry Riker had a shop at 350 Pearl St. from 1797 to 1798. This parternership was dissolved by mutual consent.
Provenance:
close view
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
34501
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Sugar bowl and creamer
Classification:
Date:
1819-1825
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Part (creamer): 5 3/8 x 6 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (13.7 x 16.5 x 8.3 cm)
Part (sugar bowl): 8 3/8 x 7 x 4 1/4 in. (21.3 x 17.8
Description:
Wrought silver sugar bowl with lid and creamer; oval, boat-shaped bodies with vertically applied foliate footrings on four hollow cast ball feet; convex bands around the centers of the bodies with applied, die rolled grapevine bands above; vertically applied, foliate band rims; cast, animal head loop handles attached to the upper bodies with acanthus leaf joints; engraved, "B" in script in the centers of the bodies; maker's marks on the bases.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number:
1947.4a-c
Marks:
engraved: centers of the bodies: "B" in script
stamped: on base of sugar bowl: "C & I. W. FORBES" in a rectangle, twice bewtween two five-pointed stars in circles and an anchor in a rectangle
stamped: on base of creamer: "C & I. W. FORBES" in a rectan
Gallery Label:
This sugar bowl and creamer belonged to Mrs. John Bissell (Martha Coggeshall Holly).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
34494
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Tea infuser
Classification:
Date:
1915-1931
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. ( 6.4 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
Cast silver tea infuser; acorn-shaped body with circular perfoations all over; circular domed, screw-on lid with a stepped and rolled over rim; circular perforations in the top of the lid; chain with terminal ring attached to the top of the lid; maker's marks stamped on theinside of the lid.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Mildred S. Rosenberg, Queens, New York
Object Number:
1988.46ab
Marks:
stamped: inside the cover: "STERLING/ L [scroll] L/ 205"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1931
eMuseum Object ID:
34490
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Coffeepot
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1710-1725
Medium:
Silver, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. ( 27.3 x 16.5 x 19.7 cm )
Silver Weight with wood: 34 oz (troy) 6 dwt (1067 g)
Description:
Wrought and seamed silver coffeepot; round in plan with straight sides, seamed under the handle; tapered from applied, molded footring to applied waved band around the lip; hinged, molded domed lid with a scrolled rat-tail thumbpiece applied to the hinge and an applied, turned knop finial; s-curve spout, at a right angle to the handle, with a tapered wave pendent at the lip; oval joint between body and spout; round hinged spout cover; cylindrical handle sockets with oval body joints, fitted with a s-scroll wooden handle; engraved in the front center with the Robinson-Buckle family arms, a circle split with chevrons dividing each half in two; on the left chevron has three fleur-de-lis with two stags above and one below (Robinson); on the right, a plain chevron with two garlands above and one below (Buckle); all surrounded by a scrolled cartouche with an angel's bust at the base; stag engraved above, and a banner engraved, "PROPERE ET PROVIDE" (Robinson) below; maker's marks on either side of the handle, below lid.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor
Object Number:
1972.26
Marks:
Mark: stamped twice at either side of top handle socket: "P. V. D" in oval surround
Mark: scratched deeply on base: "-33-ons-7-p-"
Note: mark consistent with Van Dyck from 1715-1748
Inscription: engraved at front center: the Robinson-Buckle family arm
Gallery Label:
Crafted by silversmith Peter Van Dyck, this lighthouse-shaped coffeepot, with tall tapered body, high domed lid, and handle oriented at a right angle to the spout, is modeled directly after London prototypes made between 1700 and 1720. According to family history, it was owned by Beverley Robinson and his wife, Susannah Philipse, staunch Loyalists. In 1779, when the New York Legislature confiscated their extensive land holdings, the couple fled to England, bringing the coffeepot with them. Passed down through the family in England for nearly two centuries, the coffeepot returned to the United States when a Robinson descendent consigned the coffeepot to a London dealer around 1930, and, in a serendipitous transaction, it was purchased Beverley R. Robinson (1876-1951), a New York attorney and collateral descendant of the Loyalist. The engraved coat of arms was added in 1837 for the marriage of Colonel Robinson's grandson William Henry Robinson to Georgiana Buckle, daughter of the prominent naval commander Rear Admiral Mathew Buckle.
Provenance:
[Possible descent: Frederick Philipse (1698-1751), who married Joanna Brockholst (1700-1765); to their daughter Susannah Philipse (1727-1822), who married Beverley Robinson (1723-1792); to their son William Henry Robinson (1765-1836), who married Catherine Skinner (1768-1843)]; to their son William Henry Robinson (1800-1858), who married Georgiana Buckle (1806-1903); to their daughter Henrietta Charlotte Robinson (1842-1923), who married Alfred Wright Surtees (1820-1906); to their son Henry Patrick Surtees (1868-after 1928); consigned by Surtees to Crichton Brothers, London, ca. 1930; sold to Beverley R. Robinson (1876-1951); to his niece Anna Glen Butler (1917-2005), who married Alexander O. Vietor (1913-1981), the donors.
Bibliography:
Hofer, Margaret K. "Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century family silver." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 156-161.
Krohn, Deborah, Peter Miller, and Marybeth De Filippis, eds., "Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick." New York: Bard Graduate Center, New-York Historical Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 322-3
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1725
eMuseum Object ID:
34489
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Coffee pot
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1720
Medium:
Silver, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. ( 18.7 x 14 x 14 cm )
Description:
Wrought and seamed silver coffeepot; round in plan with straight sides, seamed under the handle; tapered from applied, molded footring to applied molded lip; hinged, domed lid with a plain flange lip and cast knop finial; eight-sided s-curve spout, at a right angle to the handle, with a scrolled and notched lip; cylindrical handle sockets fitted with a double-scroll wooden handle; engraved with the Hume family arms, a shield in the front center with two lions rampant, one upper left, one lower right, a cross in the lower left and three birds in the upper right; shield surmounted by the De Peyster crest, an armored dexter arm holding a sword; all surround by a geometric and scroll cartouche; maker's marks stamped right of the handle.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Catherine Augusta De Peyster
Object Number:
1911.40
Marks:
stamped: right of handle, below lid: "B V" in a conforming rectangle below a starburst, three times
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1720
eMuseum Object ID:
34483
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Teapot
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1785-1789
Medium:
Silver, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 15.9 x 29.2 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Seamed silver teapot; oval body with straight sides seamed under the handle; applied, cast beaded band at the base and at the shoulder; applied, concave shoulder and flat top with an inset, hinged oval lid raised to a low dome in the center with a pineapple and leaf finial screwed through the center; bright-cut foliate and bell flower bands around the edge of the shoulder and the edge of the lid; engraved floral motif over the hinge; straight seamed and tapered spout; handle sockets cylindrical in section and fitted with a wooden c-scroll handle; bright-cut oval suspended from a bow knot and surrounded by floral garlands on each side; in oval right of the handle is the De Peyster family crest, a tree in a field; in oval left of the handle are the initials, "W C D P" in bright-cut script; maker's marks on the base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Sr.; The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection
Object Number:
1950.340
Marks:
engraved: in oval right of the handle: the De Peyster family crest, a tree in a field in oval left of the handle are the initials, "W C D P" in bright-cut script;
engraved: in oval left of the handle: "W C D P" in bright-cut script
stamped: on base: "P
Gallery Label:
Belonged to William De Peyster, Jr. (1735-1803) and his second wife, Christina Dally (1748-1813), whose initials are engraved in the center.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1789
eMuseum Object ID:
34477
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Partial tea service
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810 (teapot); ca. 1845 (waste bowl)
Medium:
Silver, ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (26 x 31.8 x 14.6 cm)
Description:
Wrought partial silver tea service consiting of a teapot and waste bowl; wide gadrooning around the lower bodies on applied round stepped feet with egg and dart applied footrings and die-rolled acorn and floral band pedestals; concave shoulders with applied vertical egg and dart rims; engraved, "J E B" in script on the interior of the base of the teapot and the center front of the waste bowl; makers' marks on the bases.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Sheldon Leavitt
Object Number:
1957.222ab
Marks:
Mark: stamped on base of teapot: "G. EOFF" in a rectangle twice
Mark: stamped on base of the waste bowl: "EOFF & PHYFE" in a rectangle twice
Inscription: engraved at inside base of teapot and on the front of waste bowl: "J E B" in script
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
34475
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Milk pot
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1791
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/4 x 4 5/8 x 2 3/4 in. ( 14.6 x 11.7 x 7 cm )
Description:
Wrought silver milk pot; raised, inverted pear-shaped body with a flared rim and extended pouring lip; applied beading around the rim; cast, circular stepped foot and circular pedestal; beading applied around the edge of the foot; double-scroll, strap handle, upper juncture at rim with a paw-foot drop inside; midrib on top of handle with an applied beaded band, to slight grip, forked scroll terminal; bright-cut oval reserve suspended from a bow-knot and surrounded by a floral garland in the center of the body; oval reserve engraved, "E R" in bright-cut script; maker's mark on the base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Goodhue Livingston
Object Number:
1951.298
Marks:
engraved: in oval reserve: "E R" in bright-cut script
stamped: on base: "I * G" superimposed over the center punch
Gallery Label:
The milk pot was probably made for Elizabeth Rhodes (1770-1796), who married Samuel Wharton Fisher (1764-1817) in Philadelphia in 1791.
Provenance:
Elizabeth Rhoads (1770-1796), who married Samuel Wharton Fisher (1764-1817); to their son Coleman Fisher (1793-1857), who married Mary Read (1799-1875); to their daughter Elizabeth Rhodes Fisher (1828-1878), who married Eugene Augustus Livingston (1813-1893); to their son Richard Montgomery Callendar Livingston (1861-1945); to his cousin Goodhue Livingston (1867-1951), the donor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1791
eMuseum Object ID:
34472
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Milk pot
Classification:
Date:
1766-1769
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 2 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. ( 12.7 x 6.4 x 11.1 cm )
Description:
Wrought silver creamer; raised, inverted pear-shaped body with a flared rim and extended triangular pouring lip; applied rope molding around the rim; cast, circular stepped foot and incurved circular pedestal; rope molding applied around the edge of the foot; cast, open s-scroll on c-scroll handle; engraved, "P S/ 1761" in bright-cut script; maker's mark on the base.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Major Philip Schuyler
Object Number:
1915.25
Marks:
engraved: center front: "P S/ 1761" in bright-cut script
stamped: on the base: "S Coley" in script, conforming
Gallery Label:
This creamer originally belonged to Philip Schulyer (1788-1865).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1769
eMuseum Object ID:
34468
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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