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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
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.
