About This Artwork

Cornelius Kierstede
American, 1675-1757

Two-Handled Covered Cup, 1698/1720

Silver
14 x 22.9 x 14.1 cm (5 1/2 x 9 x 5 9/16 in.)
Marked on side of each handle and three times on the lid: "CK" in rectangle; engraved on body of cup: the Van Cortlandt family arms; engraved on bottom of cup, in a period hand: ">M C L<" and at a later date: "Petrus Stuyvesant/ married/ M.C. Livingston/ 1730;" engraved on underside lip of cover: "MCL."
Restricted gift of Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Pauline Seipp Armstrong, Marshall Field, Charles C. Haffner III, Mrs. Burton W. Hales, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Milo M. Naeve, Mrs. Eric Oldberg, Mrs. Frank L. Sulzberger, and the Ethel T. Scarborough Fund, 1984.1132

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Albany Institute of History and Art, In Remembrance of Patria, May 9–Aug. 24, 1986, cat. 312.

Publication History

“Acquisitions,” Mosaic (Mar./Apr. 1985), p. 7 (ill.).
“Board News,” Behind the Lions (Mar./Apr. 1985), p. 1 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1984–1985 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), pl. 3.

Milo M. Naeve, “Dutch Colonists and English Style in New York City: Silver Syllabub Cups by Cornelius Kierstede, Gerrit Onckelbag, and Jurian Blanck, Jr.,” American Art Journal 19, 3 (1987), pp. 40–53, fig. 1.

The Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building, The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), ill.

Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Dec. 30, 1988), pp. 38–39 (ill.).

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 48-50, no. 2.

Ownership History

Made for the Van Cortlandt family, Margaret C. Livingston; the Stuyvesant family, by descent; sold by Richard Norton Inc., Chicago (as agent) to Firestone and Parson, Boston; sold by them to the Art Institute, 1984.