Peter Van Dyck
Cann

MakerAmerican, 1684–1751
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cann
Datec. 1705–1751
Made inNew York , New York, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions3 3/4 × 3 9/16 × 5 1/2 in. (9.5 × 9 × 14 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.119
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Metals Study Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Resembling a small lidless tankard, the can was not produced in England or America before the final quarter of the seventeenth century. The earliest examples are characterized by a globular belly and cylindrical neck—a shape probably derived from English redware and stoneware drinking vessels.  Van Dyck’s diminutive can displays a contour introduced about 1700, which constitutes an evolution from the vessel’s earliest form. In place of the usual two-part handle is a simple strap handle, reminiscent of seventeenth-century cast ones, and ornamented with a beaded rat tail.

Technical notes: The can is raised. The molded foot is soldered on.

Related examples: Jones 1913, p. 450, pl. CXXXII; Avery 1920, p. 52, no. 45; Antiques 48 (November 1945), p. 263.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff.  American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[James Graham and Sons, New York, 1955]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1955; given to MFAH, 1969.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Engraved on base: DI over a fleur-de-lis flanked by S and R
Either side of handle: mark of Peter Van Dyck [Buhler and Hood 1970, vol. II, p. 286, nos. 593–97]

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