Cup (reworked)
Koenraet Ten Eyck
(1678–1753)
Object PlaceAlbany, New York, United States
Medium/TechniqueMetal; silver
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas P. Beal
Accession number1975.349
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Inscriptions" [M?]/M * B" appears in shaded roman letters on bottom of cup; "MB" in same style on pourer's side below rim.ProvenanceOriginal history of ownership probably from the Peltz family of New York to the Nexson family of New York [??]. Modern cover, apparently fabricated in the early twentieth century for the porringer, [private collection, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Beal of Lincoln, Massachusetts] and engraved with the purported owners initials on lid in a circle: "1770 MPN 1775 MN 1839 WHB 1888 MGM 1895 FGM 1920 MLM." Names roughly corresponding to these initials and dates are Mary or Margaret Peltz (1750-1795) of TOWN__________________, who in 1775 married William Nexson (1710-1744?) of TOWN ______________; to their daughter Margaret Peltz Nexson (1771-1839), who in 1795 married Gerrit Bogart (____-____) of Aurora, New York; to their son, William Henry Bogart (1810-1888), who married Jane Haswell Root (____-____) in 1834; to their daughter Margaret Bogart (1836-1895), who married Henry Augustus Morgan (____-____) in 1864; to their son, Frederick Gerrit Morgan (____-____) who married _________________; to his niece, the donor: May Lefferts Morgan (1899-____) of New Rochelle (??), who married Thomas Prince Beal (____-____) in 1921.
