Caudle Cup

1. Stephanus Van Cortlandt (1643-1700) or his son Philip Van Cortlandt (1683-1746), New York; by descent to Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721-1814), New York; by descent to his granddaughter, Ann Beekham de Peyster (1778-1857); by descent to her daughter Catherine Matilda Von Cortlandt de Peyster (1818-1886); by descent to Bishop Parsons (1851-unknown); by descent to Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870-1935); by descent to his wife Amy Bend Bishop (d. 1957); given to her heir and companion, Edith Nixon (Mrs. Shirley Douglas Falcke); with James Graham and Sons, New York, by 1955; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, September 1955.
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, French, English and American Silver, June 9–July 15, 1956, cat. 292.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Colonial Silversmiths: Masters and Apprentices, Nov. 14–Dec. 30, 1956, cat. 256.
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Masterpieces of American Silver, Jan. 15–Feb. 14, 1960, cat. 216.
• Christie’s, London, American Silver and Art Treasures: An Exhibition Sponsored by the English–Speaking Union and Held at Christie’s Great Room, London, Aug. 24–Sept. 24, 1960, cat. 87 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 187 (ill.).

• V. Isabelle Miller, "A Seventeenth–Century Caudle Cup" Magazine Antiques 65 (May 1954) p. 397 (ill.).
• Meyeric R. Rogers, "An Early American Masterwork" Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 49 (September 15, 1955), 42–44 (ill. cover).
• Helen Comstock, "The John Marshall Phillips Collection" Magazine Antiques 68 (December 1955) 554–6 (ill.).
• Helen Comstock, "The Connoisseur in America" The Connoisseur 137 (May 1956), 215–6 (ill.).
• Babette Craven, "Art in Antiques" Art News 55 (Summer 1956), 12–13.
• Meyric R. Rogers, "American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago," The Magazine Antiques LXXIV, 1 (July 1958), 55 (ill.).
• Kathryn C. Buhler, "American Silver on View in London" The Magazine Antiques 128, 3 (Sept. 1960) p. 230.
• Richard Came, "Pleasures and Treasures: Silver" (Putnam's, 1961) fig. 9 (ill.).
• R. Came, Silver, (New York, 1961), 15 (ill.).
• David A. Hanks, "American Silver at the Art Institute of Chicago" Magazine Antiques 98 (September 1970), 418–22 (ill.).
• Harold Osborne ed, The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts (Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 742 (ill.).
• Milo Naeve, "The Classical Presence in American Art" (Art Institute, 1978) (ill.).

Foam and Cypress, Point Lobos

Art Institute of Chicago

Two-Handled Covered Cup

Art Institute of Chicago

George Washington at the Altar of Liberty (Handkerchief)

Art Institute of Chicago

Funeral of the Virgin

Art Institute of Chicago

Cornelius Allerton

Art Institute of Chicago

Pair of Sinumbra Lamps

Art Institute of Chicago

Tankard

Art Institute of Chicago

A Boy Sitting on a Banked Vessel

Art Institute of Chicago

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