Description:
Silver tankard with a stepped, flat-top lid with a bezel with lapped scarf joint and center punch visible on top; wide brim with a crenolated edge opposite handle; five lug-hinge with a shaped drop on the handle and the plain rectangular lid juncture supporting a high, cusped and scrolled thumbpiece; double-scroll hollow handle with a scrolled drop terminal and small oval pad at lower juncture; and slightly tapered, straight-sided body with molded bands at the rim and base. The tankard is marked "IBV" in a rounded rectangle to the left of the handle for John Brevoort, and engraved on the front with the seal of the Collegiate Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of New York encircled with the motto "*SIG. ECCL. PROT. BELG. REFORM. NEO-EBORACENSIS" around Hebrew letters over a sunburst and an open book on a turned stand with "BIBLIA" inscribed across the book's pages and a ribbon extending from the book with "VERITATE" on the left and "PIETATE" on the right, all within a rococo cartouche. The base is engraved in shaded serifed letters in two concentric bands (note that scribe lines for placement of letters are still visible): "*THE GIFT of THE CONSISTORY of THE DUTCH CHURCH of THE CITY of NEW-YORK", and "To Mr. DANIEL CROMMELIN MARCT, AT AMSTERDAM 1764+" and has a center punch with has an engraved starburst and "L" in a circle (Amsterdam control mark for post-1794). This tankard was one of three commissioned by the Consistory of the Dutch Church of New York as gifts for three Dutch clergymen, Daniel Crommelin, David Longuiville (sold by Christie's in 1999), and James Brinshall, who had been instrumental in finding an English-speaking minister for the Church (Archibald Laidlie who became minister on April 1, 1764) and type for a Psalm Book, which was purchased through Crommelin in 1765. This tankard was one of 92 pieces in the Watson-Crichton Collection (Watson #15), bought by Lionel Alfred Crichton (1866-1938), a retail silversmith and dealer in antique plate with shops in London, New York City and Chicago, from C. Crommelin of the Hague. Wgt. 40 ozs., 5 dwts.
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