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Lot Essay
Richard Conyers
Extant work by Richard Conyers (c.1666-1708/09) is extremely rare. Kane lists just five items, a pair of mugs, a porringer, two tankards and the present salt. Conyers trained in London, became a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1697 and emigrated by 1698. He did not flourish in Boston and was imprisoned for debt in 1701 at which time he claimed that he was not "worth Tenn pounds in the world" (see Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 335).
Reel-form Salts
Two reel-form salts, marks of Bartholomew Leroux, New York and Jacob Gerritse Lansing, Albany, circa 1710-20 sold The Collection of Mr & Mrs Walter M. Jeffords; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 2004, lot 703. Two salts of similar form as the present lot, each mark of Jacob Ten Eyck, circa 1735 are known (see Quimby, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995, p. 297, no. 266 and B. Wees and M. Harvey, Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013, p. 128, no. 43).
Extant work by Richard Conyers (c.1666-1708/09) is extremely rare. Kane lists just five items, a pair of mugs, a porringer, two tankards and the present salt. Conyers trained in London, became a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1697 and emigrated by 1698. He did not flourish in Boston and was imprisoned for debt in 1701 at which time he claimed that he was not "worth Tenn pounds in the world" (see Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 335).
Reel-form Salts
Two reel-form salts, marks of Bartholomew Leroux, New York and Jacob Gerritse Lansing, Albany, circa 1710-20 sold The Collection of Mr & Mrs Walter M. Jeffords; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 2004, lot 703. Two salts of similar form as the present lot, each mark of Jacob Ten Eyck, circa 1735 are known (see Quimby, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995, p. 297, no. 266 and B. Wees and M. Harvey, Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013, p. 128, no. 43).