Sale 1839
New York
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18 January 2007
Price realised
USD 4,800
Estimate
A SILVER CREAM JUG FROM THE DOUW FAMILY MARK OF TOBIAS STOUTENBURGH, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1730 Pear form, on three pad feet with shell joins, with double scroll handle, and shaped crenellated spout, the body engraved C.D.D. to C.D.T. Jan. 1847, the base engraved CDG, marked under base, also with scratchweight 5 oz. 4 p. 4 in. high; 5 oz.
Provenance
Captain Petrus Douw (1692-1775) m. 1717 Anna van Rensselaer (1696-1758) by descent to Catherine Douw Gansevoort, great grand-daughter (1782-1848) m. 1811 Johannes de Peyster Douw, grandson (1756-1835) Catherine Louisa Douw, daughter (1817-1891) m. 1836 John Townsend (1809-1874) Catherine Douw Townsend, daughter (b. 1842) m. 1872 Bankson Taylor Morgan Townsend Morgan, son (b. 1873) John Daley, New York, by purchase from Mrs. Townsend Morgan, circa 1958
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Literature
The Darling Foundation of New York State Early American Silversmiths and Silver, New York State Silversmiths, 1964, illus. p. 168
See lot 22 for more information on the Douw family.
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