Property from the Collection of Roy J. Zuckerberg
An American Silver Drinking Cup, Henricus Boelen, New York, Circa 1730
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
lobed circular form, each panel chased with a palm design rising from scrolls and terminating in incised dots, wirework scroll handles, the base engraved with block initials IVB, later scratched G to WKE, marked on base HB conjoined in a circle
3 oz 5 dwt
102.6 g
width over handles 6 ½ in.
16.3 cm
F & L Schwartz, Philadelphia, 1953;
Winterthur Museum, Delaware, deaccessioned in 1995 (53.186);
Robert Jackson and Ann Gillooly, October 11, 1995
Ian M.G. Quimby and Dianne Johnson, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995, no. 153, p. 196
Jeanne Sloane, Artistry and Enterprise: American Silver 1660-1790 - Survey of American Colonial silver held in the collection of Roy J. Zuckerberg, New York, Smallwood & Stewart, 2018, no. 62, p. 134-135
This bowl belongs to a group by Henricus Boelen with palm-chased sides and twisted wire handles, including one at the Museum of the City of New York (Waters 2000 no. 16, p. 119-20), one at Winterthur (Quimby 1995 no. 154, p. 197), and one in the Jeffords Collection sold Sotheby's, New York, October 29, 2004, lot 737. The form is a continuation of one produced by his father, Jacob Boelen, and often decorated with embossed flowers, such as one of 1690-1710 now at Yale (Buhler/Hood 1970 no. 556, p. 12). Dr. Deborah Waters has linked this form with listings in New York inventories of "a small brandy cup" (1685) and a "large silver dram cup" (1694).
Henricus Boelen (baptised 1697-1755) was the son of Jacob Boelen and presumably trained with his father. In 1718 he married Jannetje Waldron and they had ten children of whom four were surviving at their father's death. Unlike his father, Henricus seems to have avoided civic positions, and he left the Dutch church for his wife's Moravian congregation.
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