MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1745

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AN AMERICAN SILVER CUP
MARK OF PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1745
On a molded foot and with beaded S-scroll handle, engraved on the front with a coat-of-arms in a rococo cartouche flanked by floral swags and below a crest, engraved on the underside with date 1684, marked on either side of handle with maker's mark P.V.D in an oval
2 7⁄8 in. (7.3 cm.) high
4 oz. 8 dwt. (137 gr.)

Provenance

The Stewart Family.
With Mr. Walter M. Jeffords, Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania, before June 1946.
The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 2004, lot 718.

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Lot Essay

The coat-of-arms found on the present lot is likely that of Roberts.

Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Peter Van Dyck (1684 - c. 1751) was apprenticed in 1700 to New York silversmith Bartholomew Le Roux. Van Dyck married Bartholomew's daughter Rachel in 1711, further tying him to the Le Roux family of French Huguenot silversmiths, whose clients included some of the wealthiest families in colonial New York.

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