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AMERICAN SILVER
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
MARKED DANIEL PARKER, BOSTON, CIRCA 1770
Details
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
Marked Daniel Parker, Boston, circa 1770
Tapering cylindrical on molded foot rim, the hinged domed cover with scroll thumbpiece and baluster finial, the scroll handle with oval shield terminal, the handle engraved R over I*L, the body engraved with later mongram WER, marked near each side of handle with Kane mark A
8¾in. (22cm.) high; 33oz.
Marked Daniel Parker, Boston, circa 1770
Tapering cylindrical on molded foot rim, the hinged domed cover with scroll thumbpiece and baluster finial, the scroll handle with oval shield terminal, the handle engraved R over I*L, the body engraved with later mongram WER, marked near each side of handle with Kane mark A
8¾in. (22cm.) high; 33oz.
Provenance
Christie's, January 20-21, 1989, lot 296
Literature
Patricia Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 757