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Two-Handled Covered Cup

Cornelius Kierstede · 1698–1720

Provenance

Ownership history

Van Cortlandt family; Petrus Stuyvesant (1727-1805) and his wife, Margaret (Peggy) Livingston (1738-1818); by descent to their daughter, Cornelia Stuyvesant (1768-1825); by descent to her son Reverand Petrus Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1792-1849); by descent to his daughter Harriet Cutter Ten Broeck Peabody (1833-1901); by descent to her daughter Harriet Jessie Peabody Butler (1864-unknown) and Herman Beardsley Butler (1856-1904); by descent in the Butler family to 1984; sold to Firestone and Parson, Boston, through Richard Norton, Inc., Chicago, 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Albany Institute of History and Art, In Remembrance of Patria, May 9–Aug. 24, 1986, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine">Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat.; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.

Literature

Published references

“Acquisitions,” Mosaic (Mar./Apr. 1985): 7 (ill.).
“Board News,” Behind the Lions (Mar./Apr. 1985): 1 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1984–1985 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), pl. 3 (ill.).
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, no. 3 (1987): 40–53, fig. 1 (ill.).
Rodric H. Blackburn and Ruth Piwonka, Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609–1776, exh. cat. (Albany Institute of History and Art, 1988), cat. 312.
Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Dec. 30, 1988): 38–39 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 48–50, cat. 2 (ill.).
Katherine A. Wahlberg, "Cornelius Kierstade: Colonial Silversmith" Magazine Antiques 173, no. 1 (Jan. 2008): 205 (ill.).
Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 109, fig. 3 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 46–49, cat. 7 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), <a href="https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6">https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6</a>, cat. 7 (ill.).

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