Tankard

1700–20

Cornelius Kierstede
American, 1674–1757
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 165
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Cornelius Kierstede (Maker)
Title: Tankard
Place: New York (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1700–1720
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked once on either side of handle, in a square: CK Engraved on body: unidentified crest and coat of arms Engraved in script on bottom: Miss Ann Haig Scratched on bottom: oz / 29 / dwt / 3
Dimensions: 16.5 × 19.1 × 12.7 cm (6 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund
Reference Number: 1946.220
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An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1948), 16 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), no. 50 (ill.).
A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections and Notes on the Society’s Aims and History (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), cat. 50.
Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America” Connoisseur Magazine 130 (Oct. 1952), 148.
Meyeric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 74 (July 1958), 49–56 (ill.).
David A. Hanks, “American Silver at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 98 (Sept. 1970), 418–22, fig. 4.
Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 7 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, “The Classical Presence in American Art,” Magazine Antiques 114 (Sept. 1978), 496–506 (ill.).
Ed. Francis J. Puig, Michael Confortini, “The American Craftsman and the European Tradition 1620–1820,” (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1989) p. 138.
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), 54–56, no. 7 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 8 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 8 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Silver Tankard by Cornelius Kierstede, New York, 1710–1720: Masterpiece of the Month, Sept. 1947.
Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, Apr. 21–June 19, 1949, cat. 187 (ill.).
Kansas City, Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, Antique American and English Silver, Oct. 1–30, 1950, no cat.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, 1956, cat. 195.
Museum of the City of New York, New York Silversmiths of the Seventeenth Century, Dec. 5, 1962–Feb. 1, 1963, cat. 38.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 188.

Ann Haig, possibly North Carolina; by descent to A(aron) Pennington Whitehead (1908-1994), New York, by 1932; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

Cat. 8 Tankard, 1700/1720

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