AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
MARK OF JOHN NOYES, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1704
Tapered cylindrical with banded foot rim, the body engraved to the front This belongs to / the Church in / Brattle-street / 1704 within a foliate cartouche surmounted by a cherub's head, and with two further later presentation engravings to either side, the slightly domed cover with incised band border and shaped peak, with double dolphin and grotesque mask-form thumbpiece, the scroll handle with cartouche form terminal, marked to left of handle and top of cover (Kane mark A), the underside with scratch weight 34 oz = 2 dwt
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
34 oz. (1,057 gr.)

Provenance
Brattle Street Church, Boston, 1704,
Acquired by Peter Thatcher Homer (1804 - 1887) in a church members' auction 29 December 1839,
Acquired by the present owner from Bernard & S. Dean Levy Gallery Inc, New York, by 1987.