Creamer

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1810
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 5 3/8 x 6 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. ( 13.7 x 16.5 x 8.3 cm )
Description: 
Seamed silver creamer has oval, boat-shaped body with an applied foliate footring supported on four cast ball feet; convex body with frieze around center of applied, die-rolled grapevine band; high, wide pouring lip protrudes from straight neck that dips at the sides; edge of neck rim ornamented with an applied, foliate band; cast, animal head high-loop handle is attached to upper body at an acanthus leaf joint; engraved, "B" in script at the center of the body; makers hallmarks stamped on the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number: 
1947.4c
Marks: 
engraved: center front: "B" in script stamped: on base: "C & I. W. FORBES" in a rectangle, bewtween two five-pointed stars in circles and an anchor in a rectangle
Gallery Label: 
This creamer belonged to Mrs. John Bissell (Martha Coggeshall Holly).
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1810
eMuseum Object ID: 
34466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sugar tongs

Classification: 
Date: 
1800-1825
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 6 3/4 x 2 1/4 x 1 in. ( 17.1 x 5.7 x 2.5 cm )
Description: 
silver bow-form sugar tongs with fiddle-end arms with wheel turned borders and horizontal elliptical borders with inscribed arch drops; arch engraved, "EH" in script; maker's marks stamped on the undersides of the arms.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Arthur D. Benson
Object Number: 
1941.456
Marks: 
engraved: on the arch: "EH" in script stamped: on the underside of the arms: twice, "T. B" in a serrated rectangle
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1825
eMuseum Object ID: 
34464
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sugar bowl with lid

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1810
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 x 8 3/8 x 4 1/4 in. ( 17.8 x 21.3 x 10.8 cm )
Description: 
Seamed silver sugar bowl with lid; bowl has oval, boat-shaped body with an applied foliate footring, convex body with applied, die rolled grapevine frieze, and concave shoulder raised to a vertically applied, foliate rim band; bowl is supported on four cast ball feet; rectangular lid is flat at edges and raised to a rectangular platform at center with an applied, cast prone animal finial; two cast, animal head loop handles are attached to the upper body with acanthus leaf joints; engraved, "B" in script at the center of the body; makers hallmarks stamped along the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number: 
1947.4ab
Marks: 
engraved: center of body: "B" in script stamped: on base: "C & I. W. FORBES" in a rectangle, twice between two five-pointed stars in circles and an anchor in a rectangle
Gallery Label: 
This sugar bowl belonged to Mrs. John Bissell (Martha Coggeshall Holly).
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1810
eMuseum Object ID: 
34462
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sugar bowl and creamer

Classification: 
Date: 
1815-1822
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Part (creamer): 6 3/4 x 6 x 3 1/8 in. (17.1 x 15.2 x 7.9 cm) Part (sugar bowl): 9 3/8 x 7 x 4 1/4 in. (23.8 x 17.8 x 10
Description: 
Wrought silver sugar bowl with lid and creamer; oval boat-shaped bodies with gadrooning around the lower bodies; both seated on oval, stepped and molded pedestals with bands of gadrooning and a vertically applied, stamped foliate bands; pedestals on four hollow cast ball feet; lower bodies flared to stamped, vertically applied pastoral landscape bands, below convex shoulders; foliate stamped bands vertically applied around the rims; cast, squared strap handles; engraved on the shoulders, bodies and feet in the memory of, "Samuel Jones"; maker's marks on the bases.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Maria Duane Bleecker Cox
Object Number: 
1916.9a-c
Marks: 
engraved: on shoulders, bodies and feet: "In memory of Samuel Jones/ Born 26 July 1734 Died 21 November 1819/ Recorder of the City of New York 1789-1797/ First Comptroller of the State of New York/ 15 March 1797 - 12 March 1800/ Bequest of his/ great gre
Gallery Label: 
The presentation engravings on this sugar bowl and creamer suggest they were initially owned by the Honorable Samuel Jones (1734-1819), the first comptroller of the State of New York and a recorder of the City of New York. Although born on Long Island into a family of Loyalists, he actively supported the Continental Congress and Revolutionary cause, and was a delegate to the 1788 New York State convention that ratified the Constitution. An associate of John Pintard, Jones became an honorary member of the New-York Historical Society in his later years. It is doubtful that the set was made for Jones, who would have been in his eighth decade, and more likely that a descendant, perhaps his son, scratched his family surname on each underside.
Provenance: 
Possibly owned by Honorable Samuel Jones (1734-1819), who married Cornelia Haring (d. 1821); probably to their son William Jones (1771-1853), who married Kezia Youngs (1773-1847); to their son Samuel William Jones (1791-1855), who married Maria Bowers Duane (1793-1858); to their daughter Cornelia Jones (1828-1901), who married John Bleecker Miller (1820-1861); to their daughter Maria Duane Bleecker Miller (Mrs. Wilmot Townsend Cox, 1860-1915), the donor.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1822
eMuseum Object ID: 
34459
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Teapot

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1830
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 silver teapot, oval, boat-shaped body with wide gadrooning around the lower body on an applied round stepped foot with egg and dart applied footring and a die-rolled acorn and floral band pedestal; concave shoulder with an applied egg and dart band below and a convex band above; applied vertical egg and dart rim; hinged, concave lid raised to a flat oval dome in the center covered with chased acanthus leaves; hollow cast finial in the shape of a basket of flowers; cast, s-curve spout with a notched serpents head; cast c-curve handle, made in vertical halves, circular in section and swelling toward a cinched center, handle sockets are formed from the single upper scroll terminus and the double lower terminus; fitted with ivory insulators; engraved, "J E B" in script on the interior of the base; maker's marks on base.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Sheldon Leavitt
Object Number: 
1957.222a
Marks: 
engraved: inside base: "J E B" stamped: on base: "G. EOFF" in a rectangle twice
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1830
eMuseum Object ID: 
34450
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Creamer

Classification: 
Date: 
1793-1795
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 x 5 3/8 x 3 1/4 in. ( 20.3 x 13.7 x 8.3 cm )
Description: 
Wrought silver creamer; urn shaped body with an applied, cast, beaded band at the rim, with a short, high pouring lip; body on a high, applied splayed foot set on a square base; molded, beaded band at the juncture of the foot and base; high tapered strap handle, grooved on upper surface; engraved with the Child family arms on the front; narrow striped shield with a chevron in the center between three birds, surmounted by an eagle with a cross in its beak; maker's mark on the front of the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Robert G. Goelet
Object Number: 
1982.64b
Marks: 
stamped: on front of base: "m" in a rectangle, eagle in an oval, "G. SCHANCK" in a rectangle, eagle in an oval, "m" in a rectangle engraved: Child family arms on the front; narrow striped shield with a chevron in the center between three birds, surmounte
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1795
eMuseum Object ID: 
34447
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Partial tea service

Classification: 
Date: 
1793 - 1795
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 1/8 x 13 x 4 1/2 in. (18.1 x 33 x 11.4 cm)
Description: 
Wrought and seamed partial silver tea service consisting of a teapot and creamer in the Chippendale fashion; engraved with the Child family arms on the front; narrow striped shield with a chevron in the center between three birds, surmounted by an eagle with a cross in its beak; maker's mark on base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Robert G. Goelet
Object Number: 
1982.64ab
Marks: 
Engraving: Child family arms on the front; narrow striped shield with a chevron in the center between three birds, surmounted by an eagle with a cross in its beak Mark: stampedon front of creamer base: "m" in a rectangle, eagle in an oval, "G. SCHANCK" i
Gallery Label: 
Engraved with the Child family coat of arms.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1795
eMuseum Object ID: 
34445
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Sugar bowl with lid

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1819 - 1828
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 3/8 x 7 x 4 1/4 in. ( 23.8 x 17.8 x 10.8 cm ) Silver Weight: 18 oz (troy) 17 dwt (587 g)
Description: 
Wrought silver sugar bowl with lid; oval boat-shaped body with gadrooning around the lower body; seated on an oval, stepped and molded pedestal with a band of gadrooning and a vertically applied, stamped foliate band; pedestal on four hollow cast ball feet; lower body flared to a stamped, vertically applied pastoral landscape band, below a convex shoulder; foliate stamped band vertically applied around the rim; oval lid raised in the center to an oval, gadrooned and domed platform; hollow cast, rectangular, gadrooned and domed finial with an applied foliate band around the center; two cast, squared strap handles; engraved on the shoulder, body and foot in the memory of, "Samuel Jones"; maker's mark on the base.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Maria Duane Bleecker Cox
Object Number: 
1916.9ab
Marks: 
engraved: on shoulder, body and foot: "In memory of Samuel Jones/ Born 26 July 1734 Died 21 November 1819/ Recorder of the City of New York 1789-1797/ First Comptroller of the State of New York/ 15 March 1797 - 12 March 1800/ Bequest of his/ great great
Gallery Label: 
This sugar bowl belonged to the Honorable Samuel Jones (1734-1819), the first Comptroller of the state of New York (1797-1800).
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1828
eMuseum Object ID: 
34429
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Creamer

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1796
Medium: 
Silver
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 1/8 x 5 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. ( 18.1 x 14.6 x 7.3 cm )
Description: 
Wrought silver creamer; helmet-shaped with two broad shallow concave flutes at each end, joined to an ovoid splayed foot with two broad flutes at each end; extended pouring lip; loop handle, tapered toward the bottom, applied to the body; engraved on the front center with the Clinton family crest, five standing ostrich feathers, over the initials, "A A" in script; maker's mark on the side of the base.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Pintard Fellows
Object Number: 
1982.17b
Marks: 
engraved: center front: the Clinton family crest, five standing ostrich feathers, over the initials, "A A" in script stamped: on side of the base: "I. SAYRE" in a rectangle
Gallery Label: 
John Sayre worked from circa 1796 to 1818 as a gold- and silversmith in New York City. His workshop was located at 281 Pearl Street until 1801 and at the same address as his brother Joel Sayre from 1802-18. He moved to Cohoes, New York in 1824 to become the director of cotton factory. This creamer bearing the armorial crest of Governor Dewitt Clinton and his family descended through the family of his first wife, Maria Franklin.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1796
eMuseum Object ID: 
34420
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Teapot

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1695
Medium: 
Silver, wood
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 5 in. (19.1 x 22.2 x 12.7 cm) Silver Weight: 16 oz (troy) 4.7 dwt (505 g)
Description: 
Wrought silver teapot; squat pear-shaped body on an applied reeded footring; slightly flared reeded rim with an engraved waved line below; high domed lid with a cast finial with a central knop; lid hinged onto the upper handle socket with a plain flange; straight seamed and tapered spout; handle sockets cylindrical in section and fitted with a wooden c-scroll handle; engraved on both sides, left of the handle are the Schuyler arms, a hand and a clothed arm cut off at the elbow holding a falcon with a ribbon about its neck, in a shield surrounded by foliate scrolls and surmounted by a falcon with a ribbon around its neck on an armored head; left of handle, leaf garland around a reverse cipher with the initials, "JES" and a chaplet of leaves and roses above; maker's marks on the base.
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Major Philip Schuyler
Object Number: 
1915.20
Marks: 
Mark: stamped on base, four times around the center punch: demi-horse or unicorn in a square Inscription: engraved at right of handle: "J E S" in a reverse cipher
Gallery Label: 
This vessel is possibly the oldest extant teapot made in New York. The attribution of this vessel to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was first made in 1960, when the same demihorse mark was noted on a porringer made around 1696 for Samuel Bayard (1669-1746) and his wife, Margaret Van Cortlandt (1674-1719). The teapot bears the coat of arms of the Schuyler family on one side and a cipher with the initials of Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747) and his wife, Elizabeth (Elsie) Staats Wendell (ca. 1658-1737), on the other. The marriage chaplet above the cipher and the surrounding feathery wreath tied with a bow indicate that the teapot commemorates the couple's marriage and suggest a date of manufacture around the time of their wedding in 1695.
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); probably to their son Philip Jeremiah (1768-1835), who married (2nd) Mary Anna Sawyer (1781-1852); to their son George Lee Schuyler (1811-1890), who married Eliza Hamilton (1811-1863); to their son Philip Schuyler (1836-1906), the donor.
Bibliography: 
Hofer, Margaret K. "Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century family silver." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 156-160.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1695
eMuseum Object ID: 
34411
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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