AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOAN AND BOWEN BLAIR, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF SAMUEL MINOTT, BOSTON, MASSACUSETTS, CIRCA 1760

Details
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
MARK OF SAMUEL MINOTT, BOSTON, MASSACUSETTS, CIRCA 1760
Tapered cylindrical with molded base band and mid-rib, the stepped domed cover with scroll thumbpiece and writhen finial, the scroll handle with baluster drop above engraved block monogram H / T*M and with oval disc terminal, marked to left of upper handle terminal Minott in a rectangle (Kane mark B)
8 5⁄8 in. (21.9 cm.) high
31 oz. 10 dwt. (980 gr.)
Provenance
With Richard Loeb (b. 1905), New Brunkswick, New Jersey.
With Tillou Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Acquired from the present owners from the above, November 1962.
Literature
Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 5.
American Art of The Colonies and Early Republic, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971, p. 74, no. 103.
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 696.
Exhibited
By repute, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, first half 20th century.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, American Art of The Colonies and Early Republic, 17 July - 13 September 1971.

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Lot Essay

Richard Loeb (b. 1905) was a successful businessman and important collector of American silver, discussed in Charles Montgomery's Early American Silver: Collectors, Collections, Exhibitions, Writings (Portland, 1969). Following a dispute with the US government over his taxes he left the country for Chile shortly after World War II, leaving his collection to Ginsberg & Levy to sell on his departure.
Samuel Minot (1732-1803) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and likely began his apprenticeship in 1746, possibly with Edward Winslow, as Minot married Winslow's granddaughter Elizabeth Davis (1738-1823) in 1762, or with William Homes Sr. Minot began working as a freeman by 1755, though work likely halted during the Revolutionary War as Minot was a Tory and was arrested in 1776, though he stayed in Boston. Minot began advertising again in 1785, and continued producing silver good, as well as importing silver and jewelry, until 1795.

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