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AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN SILVER LARGE TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK OF SIMEON SOUMAINE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1730
Tapering cylindrical, on a molded circular base with an applied band of leaf-stamped cut-card decoration, the bold scroll handle applied with a cast garland of pendant fruit and terminating in a cast cherub's mask, the flat-domed circular cover with a crenellated lip and a corkscrew thumbpiece; the front finely engraved with a coat of arms within foliate scroll mantling, the handle engraved with block initials T over I*M, the cover engraved circa 1780 with script monogram TGT within a circular bright-cut reserve, the base engraved with scratchweight 48oz. 10 dwt., marked to left of upper handle join--8 in. high
(48 oz.)
MAKER'S MARK OF SIMEON SOUMAINE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1730
Tapering cylindrical, on a molded circular base with an applied band of leaf-stamped cut-card decoration, the bold scroll handle applied with a cast garland of pendant fruit and terminating in a cast cherub's mask, the flat-domed circular cover with a crenellated lip and a corkscrew thumbpiece; the front finely engraved with a coat of arms within foliate scroll mantling, the handle engraved with block initials T over I*M, the cover engraved circa 1780 with script monogram TGT within a circular bright-cut reserve, the base engraved with scratchweight 48oz. 10 dwt., marked to left of upper handle join--8 in. high
(48 oz.)
Provenance
John Tiebout of New York
Tunis and Garetta Tiebout
Thence by descent to Charles T. Cowenhoven, Jr.
A descendant of the above, Sotheby's, January 27, 1989, lot 925
Firestone & Parson, Boston
Tunis and Garetta Tiebout
Thence by descent to Charles T. Cowenhoven, Jr.
A descendant of the above, Sotheby's, January 27, 1989, lot 925
Firestone & Parson, Boston
Literature
Charles T. Cowenhoven, Jr., The Cowenhoven Family, privately printed, 1954, p. 15 and illustrated p. 42.