$9,500
Estimate: $6,000 - $10,000
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Auction: April 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
The lid with scalloped front edge and applied thumbpiece with inset twisted rope detail, the scroll handle bearing engraved initials, "RA*C" terminating in cast cherub's head, marked four times to shoulder.
H: 8 1/8 in. Weight: approx. 26 1/2+ troy oz.Provenance: Emily Detwiler Uhl, Redding, Connecticut.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hamilton Uhl, Kingston, Pennsylvania.
French Huguenot Peter David (1707-1755) trained as a silversmith in New York under Peter Quintard (1699-1762). He married Jeanne Dupuy (1715-1752), circa 1733, and moved to Philadelphia prior to the birth of his son, silversmith John David, Sr. (1736-1798). Another tankard of a different form by Peter David is in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.