About the Artwork
Tankard
between 1700 and 1710
Samuel Vernon
1683-1737
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 7 × 7 7/8 × 5 1/8 inches (17.8 × 20 × 13 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
38.77
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamped, on cover next to handle: S V Stamped, below: [heart shaped shield] [fleur de lis]
Provenance
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Tannahill, Robert H. "The Growth of the Collection of Early American Silver." Bulletin of the DIA, 18 (May 1939): no. 8.
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Samuel Vernon, Tankard, between 1700 and 1710, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 38.77.
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