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Coffeepot

Coffeepot
Object name 
Coffeepot
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 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 angle's bust at the base; stag engraved above, and a banner engraved, "PROPERE ET PROVIDE" (Robinson) below
Gallery Label 
Descended in the family of New York Loyalist Colonel Beverly Robinson (1723-1793). The coffeepot may have descended through Robinson's wife Susanna Philipse, daughter of Frederick Phillipse, the Second Lord of Philipse Manor, Yonkers, NY and one of the colony's leading slave traders and owners. It was taken to England after the Revolution and returned to a descendant around 1930. It was then bequeathed to the donor, also a descendant of the original owners.
Provenance 
Frederick Philipse (1698-1751) who married Joanna Brockholst (1700-1765); to their daughter Susannah Philipse (1727-1822) who married Beverley Robinson (1722-1792); 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-after 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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.