Collection Highlights
William Walton (1706-1768)
ca. 1750
1902.3
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)
Object name
Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)
Date
ca. 1700
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 5 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. ( 14.6 x 31.4 x 22.2 cm )
Silver Weight: 21 oz (troy) 6 dwt (662 g)
Description
Raised silver two-handled lobate bowl; deep, bowl-shaped body, with sides curved out from an applied, molded footring with a stamped "x" band and an applied six lobed, scalloped base, and back to an inward sloping rim; sides divided into six panels by deep, chased vertical "U"-shaped lines, lines are punched inward at the top to give a lobed affect to the lip; in each panel an escutcheon-shape is formed by deep chased lines, with scrolls below; within each escutcheon are repouss
Credit Line
Bequest of Catherine Augusta De Peyster
Object Number
1911.38
Marks
Inscription: engraved at lower center of one lobe: "P/ C * M" in block letters
Inscription: engraved at opposite lobe: "E. D. P."
Mark: stamped at lip: "W. K/ B" in a heart outline surround, twice in relief along lip of body at center-front and center-back.
Inscription: engraved script at center front: "H. C. de Peyster"
Gallery Label
This bowl originally belonged to Cornelius De Peyster (b. 1673) and his wife Maria Bancker (1675-1709/10), who were married in 1694. Their initials are engraved on the bowl.
Provenance
Cornelis De Peyster (1673-1749) and his wife Maria Bancker (1675-1710); possibly descended to his nephew, Abraham De Peyster, Jr. (1696-1767), who married Margaretta Van Cortlandt (1694-1769); to their son James A. De Peyster (1726-1799), who married Sarah Reade (1724-1802); to their son Colonel Abraham De Peyster (1753-1799), who married Catherine Augusta Livingston (1759-1839); to their daughter Harriot Charlton De Peyster (1788-after 1870); to her niece Catherine Augusta De Peyster (1835-1911), the donor.
Bibliography
Hofer, Margaret K. "Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century family silver." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 156-160.
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. 216-7
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
