Collection Highlights
Tammany Bank
ca. 1875
1937.1237
Iron, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bottle stands (pair)
Object name
Bottle stands (pair)
Date
1770-1776
Medium
Silver, wood, linen
Dimensions
each overall: 5 1/16 x 2 1/8 in. (12.9 x 5.4 cm)
Silver Weight: 6 oz (troy) 11.8 dwt (205 g)
Silver Weight: 6 oz (troy
Description
Pair of wrought silver bottle stands with turned wooden bases; circular wooden coasters with three double circles inscribed on the tops; wooden bases covered with natural linen; bases set into circular silver rings with applied rope bands; the sides of the coaster are formed from three identical piercework pieces applied to the lower ring; gadrooned bands applied to the waved tops of the sides; the centers of a single piercework piece on each coaster are filled in forming a shield shaped reserve; reserve engraved with the Schuyler family crest, a falcon on fess; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the reserves.
Credit Line
Bequest of Major Philip Schuyler
Object Number
1915.18ab
Marks
stamped: on the undersides of the reserves: "Myers" in script conforming
Gallery Label
Engraved with Schuyler family crest and probably owned by Philip Schuyler (1733-1804) and Catherine Van Rensselaer (1734-1803), who were married in 1755. They represent one of the rarest forms of American colonial silver. Only ten pierced work pieces of colonial silver are known, including an identical pair, also by Myer Myers for Samuel Cornell (Christie's, January 27, 1996.)
Bibliography
Hofer, Margaret K. "Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century family silver." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 156-160.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
